I am a highly skilled clinical student at the University of Cambridge with a passion for medicine and technology. My expertise includes the development and implementation of innovative computational research tools for biomedical data analysis. I am seeking opportunities to advance and promote technologies in the fields of neural engineering, neurosurgery, and brain physics.

During my undergraduate studies in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at Cambridge, I focused on early cortical neurodevelopment at the cellular level, taking courses in evo-devo neurobiology, molecular and cellular neuroscience, local circuits and neural networks, and neural degeneration and regeneration.

For my undergraduate thesis, I worked with Dr. Susanna Mierau (Principal Investigator at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School) to investigate the emergence of network dynamics in developing cortical cultures using microelectrode array (MEA) recordings. This involved creating a novel spike detection method, developing tools for the analysis of cellular-level functional connectivity, and exploring network dynamics using approaches from control engineering. I am currently extending this work from 2D cultures to 3D human cerebral and spinal cord organoids. In addition, I am responsible for managing the group's website and codebase, and I contribute to collaborations across several Cambridge departments (Chemical Engineering, Clinical Neurosciences, Applied Mathematics, Engineering) and internationally (Tampere University, Finland; Harvard University, USA).

I also have a strong interest in neurosurgery. Since my Student Selected Component last spring, I have been working with the Brain Physics Lab in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge. My current computational project with Dr. Peter Smielewski (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Alexis Joannides (Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon) focuses on optimizing the mathematical model of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics to improve diagnostics of CSF disorders.

I have been inspired by the works "Neural Control Engineering: The Emerging Intersection between Control Theory and Neuroscience" by Schiff and "Neuroengineering" by DiLorenzo and Bronzino, and I am particularly interested in the current research on deep brain stimulation (DBS), brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and neuroprosthetics. As a future academic functional neurosurgeon, I hope to bring together my passions for electrophysiology and microelectrode arrays, computational neuroscience, neural network dynamics, biomedical engineering, and neurosurgery.