From diagnostics
to structure.

I've spent four and a half years inside molecular diagnostics R&D — developing and validating Laboratory Developed Tests, working with DNA/RNA extraction chemistry, and operating inside ISO 15189:2022 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 quality systems. It's precise, regulated, unglamorous work, and it taught me how to validate a method properly — a discipline that transfers directly to research.

That's not the whole picture, though. Before the industry role, my B.Sc. and M.Sc. dissertations gave me my first real exposure to independent research — spectrophotometric assays, chromatography, and enzyme inhibition kinetics, applied to plant biochemistry rather than diagnostics. It's not biophysics, but it's where I first learned to design and run an experiment on my own, not just execute someone else's protocol.

What I still don't have is the thing I actually want: an understanding of biomolecular structure and mechanism at the biophysical level. That's the gap this site is built around, not the one it pretends doesn't exist.

What draws me to this field specifically is a fascination with mechanism at the smallest scale — how molecular and physical processes underlie the difference between health and disease, and how a body forms correctly in the first place. Even my DPPH antioxidant assay work during my M.Sc. was, at its core, measuring electrons absorbing and releasing light — a small, early example of the kind of physical measurement I want to spend a career getting properly trained in. It's a broad curiosity right now, not a finished research question — the work ahead is turning it into one.