Biography

As an undergraduate physics student at King’s College London, I attended the Princeton Physics of Life seminar series. There, I was inspired by lectures indicating how physics can improve the understanding of biology, for instance, by describing the flight of birds using spin models. This also works the other way around; physics and technology can be advanced by mimicking nature’s solutions that were refined over the course of evolution. This motivated my summer research project that investigated how ant colonies’ behaviour can help optimize solutions to path-finding problems such as the ones in extra-terrestrial surface exploration. These bio-inspired technologies can not only aid humanity but also have potential benefits to the environment. (Optimized vehicle routing can reduce CO2 emissions and spare energy significantly.)My PhD would focus on exploring the information processing capabilities of a model of motile cilia. Apart from featuring interesting and mostly unexplored dynamics, the model could also form the basis of a new computational method that would be more suited for solving certain problems by creating a physical-based equivalent of a neural network.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Physics 2023
King's College London (University of London) Physics with Theoretical Phys. 2022