Education
Freie Universität Berlin, 2025-2027
Master of Science, Biology

University of Toronto, 2019-2023                        
Honours B.Sc., Biochemistry
  • Teaching Assistant, Science & Society
  • Science Editor, The Strand Newspaper
  • Capstone, Independent Studies in Humanities
  • National Scholarship & Regents Graduating Scholarship recipient

Projects & Public Engagement
Rat-Poison Free University, 2026
Freie Universität Berlin
  • Researching cultural perceptions of urban rats and human-rat relations
  • Public engagement through ABV guest lecture, Long Night of Sciences stand; planned: Sustainability Days stand, zine

SciCHAI, 2023-2024
Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University
  • Founded and led a journal club discussing the intersections of brain sciences, philosophy of science, and arts

Science Outreach, 2023-2024
Interdepartmental Neuroscience, Yale University
  • Science presentations and demonstrations for middle and high school students at OpenLabs Science Cafe and Brain Education Day


Research
Yale University
2023-2024, Colón-Ramos Lab
• Neuronal activity and metabolism in C. elegans (cellular and behavioural)

University of Toronto
2022-2023, Lee Lab
  • Stress granule regulation by chaperone proteins
2021-2022, Watts Lab
  • Parkinson’s-linked mutant α-synuclein aggregate structures (Warwick Studentship funding) 
2020-2021, McQuibban Lab
  • Mechanism of action of a small-molecule mitophagy enhancer (NSERC Research Award funding)

Speaking
Freie Universität Berlin
Spring 2024, ABV Understanding Sustainability seminar
  • Urban rats: cultural perceptions and futures

Yale University
Spring 2024, CCAM Symposium: Adaptation/s
  • Neuronal architecture and the architectural body
Spring 2024, Worm Club seminar series
  • Connecting the activity and metabolic profiles of single neurons
Fall 2023, Open Labs Science Café
  • Inside the minds of nematodes: What can we learn about the brain from a microscopic worm?