Biology as an
engineering discipline.

I am now based in Copenhagen at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design (CPD), University of Copenhagen, where I am beginning an integrated MSc–PhD trajectory focused on de novo protein design.

My research interests centre on designing proteins with functions that do not exist in nature, particularly through the combination of computational protein design, structural biology, synthetic biology, and experimental validation.

My current work at CPD includes projects involving de novo β-sheet and β-sandwich design, and the design of proteins capable of interacting selectively with persistent environmental contaminants such as PFAS. The PFAS work explores de novo proteins for selective binding, sensing, sequestration, and potentially degradation of fluorinated compounds. My work draws on generative protein design, molecular modelling, sequence design, structural prediction, and experimental protein engineering.

I am particularly interested in the idea of treating biology as an engineering discipline: understanding the design principles encoded in natural proteins, and using those principles to create new molecular systems. I enjoy working across the boundary between computation and experiment, using computational methods not simply to analyse biological systems, but to design and build them.