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I am a PhD student in the Department of Zoology using bioinformatics to analyse the genome of the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens, which is currently the world's premier species for converting food waste into high-protein animal feed.

Although I am originally from Australia, before coming to Cambridge I worked for five years as both a Research Scientist and a Facility Manager at the Pirbright Institute in Surrey.

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department focusing on automation of laboratory biological research using a combination of AI, informatics, lab robotics, and software engineering. I have previously worked on metabolomic systems biology with mass spectrometry analysis. Currently, my interests are especially focused on the intersection of knowledge representation, generative AI, and symbolic methods for automating scientific discovery.