I am currently a Simons Career Development Fellow at NCBS, a four year post-doctoral fellowship, working with Prof. Madan Rao from January 2016. My current research focuses on theoretical problems in soft matter and biology, with a particular interest in the biophysics of active and passive membranes.

I graduated from the University of Warwick in July 2011 with First Class Honours in Physics (MPhys). I was then awarded a Chancellor’s Scholarship to study for a PhD in Physics at the University of Warwick, working under the supervision of Prof. Matthew Turner from October 2011 to May 2015. My PhD work involved a study of the physics of biomembranes in and out of equilibrium, where I investigated a number of problems concerning their mechanical and dynamical properties (thesis is available here). After I completed my PhD, I won an Early Career Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick to further continue my research for the next six months, which is designed to support doctoral students in their transition to post-doctoral careers.

My current research involves a study of: (i) the membrane recycling via active vesicular transport, and (ii) the role of a (crowded) glassy liquid environment in the regulation of the surrounding membrane. The former study is relevant to organelles such as Golgi and Endosomes that are driven by the active trafficking dynamics to non-equilibrium steady-states with distinct morphologies, which have no analogue in equilibrium physics. In the latter, the crowding/glassy nature of the physical medium (cytoplasm) can profoundly alter the chemical kinetics and dynamical behaviour of macromolecules.