About Me
Bridging Science and Impact
As I was drafting the introduction to my PhD thesis, I found myself reflecting on how far microbiology has come since “Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s first glimpse of the microbial world” in the late 1600s. For centuries, bacteria remained largely mysterious. Today, we can engineer microbes and molecules with remarkable precision to do all kinds of things ranging from breaking down toxic compounds to making food and fuel. The same goes for our ability to design molecules that could be medicines and diagnose conditions we could not have imagined a few decades ago.
This rapid progress and growth in opportunity means that now more than ever, we need scientific experts and creative thinkers who can bridge deep technical insight with strategy and execution. I am particularly motivated to pursue roles that connect life sciences with strategy, helping innovation move from experiments in the lab to products and services that people can benefit from.
Recent Roles & Initiatives
Current
🧬 Nucleate — Manager, Activator Operations
I volunteer as part of the HQ team at Nucleate, a global non-profit that supports academic founders building biotech ventures. I help develop internal playbooks and conduct leadership training and facilatate knowledge exchange streamlining infrastructure and operations for Nucleate’s flagship Activator program across 18 global chapters.
GIVC Startup Externship
Currently working with a biotech startup as a Girls Into VC (GIVC) Startup Extern. The startup is focused on developing an AI solution to streamline clinical trials.
Past
🔍 Consulting Society, EPFL
Led a student consulting team advising a bacterial diagnostics startup. Mentored three new members on junior projects, two of them were subsequently staffed on client-facing projects.
Recommendation received from client upon project completion.
🎓 PhD in Quantitative Biology
Recently completed a PhD on gut microbiome ecology and evolution at the University of Lausanne. My research combined field sampling with comparative metagenomics, and synthetic microbial communities. Or more simply put, I studied how gut bacterial strains evolve and interact in gut microbiomes.
Scientific Talk featured below • More on my research
Featured
Nucleate Switzerland - Wrapping up Activator cycle 2024-25
Celebrating a successful PhD defense!
July 3rd, 2025 marked the end of an incredible journey as I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Ecology and Evolution of Gut Microbiota in Honeybees". It was a day filled with sharing my joy, gratitude and pride with family, friends and collegues.
