I am an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and of Physics, and Principal Investigator of the Synthetic Developmental Biology group in the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale.

I am a (bio)physicist by training, and I am broadly interested in understanding how group of cells self-organize to build the beautifully rich patterns, forms, and functions we find in multicellular life. In my group, we currently focus on ‘stembryo’ systems (organoids, embryoids, embryo models, etc) as laboratories for decoding and controlling mechanisms of self-organization. During my PhD, I also co-founded C16 Biosciences – a biotechnology startup producing sustainble alternatives to palm oil.

• Lewis-Sigler Scholar, Princeton University
• PhD, Harvard University (Physics)
• MSc, Trinity College Dublin (Bioengineering)
• MPhil, Cambridge University (Nanotechnology)
• BA, Yale University (Physics; Ethics, Politics, and Economics)