Experience

Freelance Data Scientist

Self-employed

Bioinformatics Scientist

Arquimea Research Centre

Worked at the interface of the AI and biotech teams on structure-based drug discovery, generative molecular design, and applied machine learning — the link between the computational tools and the biology.

  • Contributing author on a NeurIPS 2025 paper on uncertainty quantification for deep regression: ran the empirical validation and fine-tuned/retrained models in PyTorch
  • Built a modular synthetic-data-generation pipeline (Python, Biopython) orchestrating GNINA, DiffDock and AlphaFold 2, including dataset sourcing and inter-tool format conversion
  • Predicted structures and binding affinities for protein and protein–peptide complexes, including metal-ion and ATP cofactors, and designed de novo peptides, using Boltz, BoltzGen, AlphaFold, Foldseek and BioEMU
  • Developed the binding-affinity objective for the multi-objective small-molecule optimisation engine of Uncharted, a venture that spun out as Uncharted Chem
  • Applied AI tools and data analysis to cancer-research and gut-microbiota (metagenomic) programmes; prototyped a novel operon-design approach for extremophile bacteria and ran statistical power analyses for preclinical studies
  • Ran GPU workloads on an NVIDIA DGX cluster and AWS; Docker, Git and Azure DevOps within an Agile/Scrum team

Postdoctoral Researcher

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

Quantitative sensory biology within an international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) collaboration, with emphasis on statistical modelling and signal processing of behavioural data.

  • Analysed experimental data using Bayesian multilevel regression models in R and Stan
  • Designed and executed behavioural experiments with automated data acquisition pipelines
  • Contributed to interdisciplinary publications spanning biology, optics, and computation

Project Manager (contract)

Lund University

Short-term research management contract supervising experimental data collection and a masters student, bridging doctoral and postdoctoral positions.

Doctoral Researcher

Lund University

Computational and statistical analysis of visual systems in invertebrates, combining experimental biology with quantitative modelling.

  • Built statistical models using Bayesian multilevel regression in R and Stan; additional analysis in Python and Matlab
  • Developed optical and geometric models to estimate spatial resolution theoretically
  • Designed novel experimental protocols for quantifying animal visual performance

Education

PhD

Lund University

Thesis: ‘Spatial Vision in Diverse Invertebrates’.

MSc by Research

University College Dublin

Thesis: ‘The Molecular Evolution of Hearing in Mammals’

BSc (Hons)

University College Dublin

First Class Honours; UCD Zoology Medal (2008)
Skills
Programming & Tools
Python
R
pandas
Git
PyTorch
Docker
Statistics & Modelling
Statistical Modelling
Bayesian Statistics
Stan
Experimental Design
Uncertainty Quantification
Data Visualisation
Machine Learning & Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Protein Structure Prediction
Structural Bioinformatics
Proteomics
Metagenomics
Certificates and Awards
Deep Learning with PyTorch
IBM ∙ September 2026
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Customising your models with TensorFlow 2
Imperial College London ∙ August 2025
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Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization
IBM ∙ March 2023
Covers Git, GitHub, Linux, and Python, and the fundamentals of software engineering.
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Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics & Applied Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics
Uppsala University ∙ May 2020
Pass with Distinction
Writing in the Sciences
Stanford University (online) ∙ May 2019
Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction
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Mountain Leader Award
Mountain Leader Training Scotland ∙ October 2011
Professional certification to lead hillwalking groups.
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Languages
100%
English Native
50%
Spanish B2
50%
Swedish B2