Greater Cambridge Area
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cereal Symbiosis Group at the Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge. My research focuses on applying spatiotemporally resolved omics and genetic technologies to uncover the regulatory and signalling mechanisms underlying arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. I completed my PhD in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge in November 2025, funded by the Benefactor’s Scholarship from St John’s College. During my doctoral studies, I served as the Postgraduate Student Representative for the Department of Plant Sciences, President of the Samuel Butler Room Society at St John’s College, a Teaching Assistant at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Treasurer of the Norwich–Cambridge Science Symposium 2023.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cereal Symbiosis Group at the Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge. My research focuses on applying spatiotemporally resolved omics and genetic technologies to uncover the regulatory and signalling mechanisms underlying arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work is funded by a tri-national BBSRC grant in collaboration with University of Bonn and Penn State University.
Teaching assistant at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Sciences Summer Course 2023. Participated as a student in 2022, offered a TA position in 2023 to manage procurement, research workshops and social activities for the 14 postgraduate students of the course working in a team of 3 postgraduate TAs and 3 senior academics.
Student intern at the IBVF (Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis) cicCartuja (CSIC) in the Plant Metabolism and Development group, working on my end-of-degree project regarding the relationship between photoperiod and autophagy in Arabidopsis thaliana under the tutelage of Federico Valverde, Jose María Romero, Gloria Bueno Serrano and María Teresa Ruiz Pérez.
Intern at the Plant Metabolism and Development group in the IBVF-CSIC in Seville. Researching the evolution of proteins involved in plant development (COP1, HY5 and CO) from green algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) to modern plants (Arabidopsis thaliana).
During the summer of 2019 I was a summer intern funded by the Amgen Scholars Program in the Cereal Symbiosis (Uta Paszkowski's) group, of the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Cambridge. I worked on on receptor-like kinases in the periarbuscular membrane affecting the symbiotic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhiza (Rhizophagus irregularis) and rice (Oryza sativa).