Philosophy

I trained as an engineer, became a molecular biologist, and spent the next decade researching cancer and DNA repair at the Francis Crick Institute.

Along the way, I became increasingly interested in a different question: why do so many good ideas struggle to become useful?

That curiosity took me into scientific translation, technology development, entrepreneurship, and programme building. I helped develop a new institutional role for researchers interested in commercialisation, co-founded an entrepreneurship network, and developed a technology that became the foundation of a venture.

I've also built initiatives outside my own research, bringing together people and organisations around problems I thought were worth solving.

I enjoy working across disciplines, learning unfamiliar subjects and getting involved where a problem is still poorly defined. I'm comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, but I believe those decisions should always be tested against evidence.

What I want next is to put that experience into building something ambitious with people who care about getting things done.