Hi, I'm Inga, a Rosetrees PhD Plus scholar, and BiTS (Big If True, Renaissance Philanthropies) fellow, currently completing my PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Oxford.

I am fascinated by the overlap of digital and tangible aspects of the nanoscale: a world in which quantum effects dominate what we see and how matter interacts. Questions I wonder about include: What resultant behaviours would emerge if physics-informed neural nets (PINNs) were integrated with virtual cells? How long till we will be able to create a world model of a cell, or tissue? If proteins fold in nanoseconds, do they already compute faster than GPUs?

Over the past few years I have explored the use of nucleic acid reaction networks for diagnostic and therapeutic applications alike. As part of the Stevens Group, my work is highly translational: this has resulted in one of my projects being licensed to a startup. I have also learnt to outsource my pipetting to an I.DOT (automated pressure dispensing robot).

Previously, I completed a MEng in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. Here I discovered through the lens of Nanomaterials, Density Functional Theorem & Molecular Dynamics simulations, and Optoelectronics what it's like to be an artist at the nanoscale.