Research
I describe some of my research interests below, but I strongly believe that research is best communicated in dialogue: please get in touch if you want to know more or share your thoughts.
JSPS Research Fellowship: Online ML-classification for high-throughput, information-dense microfluidic sorting
After graduating with my PhD, a JSPS Research Fellow by nomination of the UK Royal Society took me to the Ota Laboratory at RCAST, University of Tokyo. My research here centres around developing and applying high-throughput screening methods enabled by online ML analysis on top of microfluidic sorting. This builds on the skills I’ve acquired during my PhD together with my electronics and hardware-adjacent programming.
PhD: Label-free optical detection methods in photonic crystal fibres
I graduated with my PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2023. For a quick visual introduction, here’s the graphical abstract of my PhD dissertation:
In brief, the research of my PhD involved a new class of optofluidic waveguides called hollow-core photonic crystal fibres. These custom-designed glass fibres, around as thick as a human hair, surround a sub-50 μm fluid channel with microstructures as thin as the wavelength of light. This confinement of light by anti-resonant interference leads to strong light-matter interaction. We used these properties to collect and guide ultraviolet light across tens of centimeters of protein solution, while still being in the nL regime: optofluidic nano-pipettes. In my PhD, I designed, assembled and carried out biophysical experiments based on these techniques, enabling us to analyse quantities as small as a single drop, and work with label-free protein solutions within continuously-flowing microfluidic circuits.
For more details, you can refer to the poster below, which I presented in different versions at the Winton Symposium Sustainable Futures 2022, the Methods and Applications of Fluorescence 2022 conference, and the Cavendish Laboratory Graduate Conference 2021, where it won the award for best poster.
Finally, if this made you curious and you would like to read the full dissertation, please email me and I am happy to provide a copy.
Publications
You can find a record of my publications in the usual listings:
If you do not have access to any of these publications, please feel free to email me to request a copy.
Patents
Patents based on research have been submitted or are currently in preparation (to be published here once they are made public by the patent office).
Research groups
Finally, to get a broader view, please do have a look at the varied science happening in the research groups I was or am part of:
- Ota Laboratory (Tokyo) - JSPS Fellowship
- Optofluidics (Cambridge) - PhD
- Knowles Group (Cambridge) - PhD
- Physical Computation Laboratory (Cambridge) - Research Assistant position during my PhD