Academic Timeline
Short Biography
I was born in 1993 in London, lived in New Jersey as a child, and grew up in an English village north of Brighton. I studied Chemistry at the University of Southampton from 2011-2015, carrying out my Masters at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Dmitry Budker and Prof. Alex Pines, investigating molecular parity violation using optically-polarized xenon. I returned to Southampton to complete a PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Levitt. In this time I carried out research on hyperpolarization techniques and microfluidic NMR. In 2018 I moved to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to work in the Matter-AntiMatter section at the Helmholtz Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where I developed zero and ultralow field NMR. Following this, in 2021 I moved to the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona on a BIST-FBA fellowship, and later on a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, to develop noninvasive metabolic imaging techniques in organ-on-a-chip devices for personalized medicine. After a 6 month stay at NVision Imaging Technologies in Ulm, I started the “Hyperpolarization Methods Lab” at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Prizes and Awards
Erwin-Schrödinger Award (€50,000) of the Helmholtz Association 2021 - Generating an enhanced MRI contrast agent with hydrogen gas
Young Scientist in Magnetic Resonance Award at Euromar 2016, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
Grants and Funding
€1.5M Helmholtz Young Investigator Group: Enhanced Sensing with Hyperpolarized Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2024
€200,000 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship: Hyperpolarized sensors for probing metabolism in microfluidic organ-on-chip platforms, 2022
€130,000 Research Fellowship awarded by Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology / Fundació Bosch Aymerich, 2022
€450,000 DFG 3-year research grant: Hyperpolarized Zero- to Ultralow-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2021
£600 Researcher Development Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022
€14,500 Johannes-Gutenberg University Research Funding, 2019
£750 Researcher Mobility Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018
€3250 Short-term Research Grant from the DAAD, 2015
Conference Lectures and Teaching
Invited Talk: Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization in Microfluidics and Biomedicine, RSC NMRDG, Nottingham, 2023
Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization for Metabolic Imaging in Organ-on-a-Chip Devices, HYP23, Leipzig, 2023
Teaching at the Jaca 2022 NMR Summer School: Hyperpolarized NMR
Hyperpolarizing [13C]fumarate for metabolic magnetic resonance imaging, SEQT Symposium, Barcelona, 2022
NMR Spectroscopy without the Magnet: Observing Metabolism with Hyperpolarization-Enhanced Zero- to Ultralow-Field NMR, HYP21, Lyon, 2021
Invited Talk: Hyperpolarization-enhanced NMR using parahydrogen-polarized [1‑13C]fumarate, ISMAR-APNMR, 2021
Invited Talk: Singlet-contrast imaging for hyperpolarized MRI, ICMRM 2021
Parahydrogen-polarized [1-13C]fumarate - State-of-the-art and future directions, PERM, online intl. conference, 2021
NMR Spectroscopy without the Magnet, Analytical Research Forum 2021
Metabolic NMR without the magnet, Euromar 2020
Parahydrogen-enhanced NMR - methodology and applications, Intercontinental NMR Seminar Series, 2020
Singlet-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, PERM, online intl. conference, 2020
Parahydrogen-polarized [1-13C]fumarate – a path to in vivo application, PERM, online intl. conference, 2020
Polarization transfer in [1-13C]fumarate using constant-adiabaticity field sweeps, SCM, St Petersburg, Russia, 2019
Parahydrogen-induced hyperpolarization in ZULF NMR, ZULF ITN, Germany, 2019
Field-swept polarization transfer in parahydrogen-enhanced NMR, HYP18, England, 2018
Preservation of nuclear spin order by precipitation, Euromar, Poland, 2017
A simple method to convert parahydrogen singlet order into observable magnetization on a nearby carbon nucleus, Euromar, Denmark, 2016