Daniel is a passionate student with keen interests in Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology. He completed his BSc in Biochemistry at UCL and his MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London. Daniel is part of the CDT in BioDesign Engineering at Imperial, funded by the EPSRC. During his PhD, he is based within the Hailes group at UCL, focusing on enzymatic cascades and aiming to optimise these at scale for the production of alkaloids with therapeutic potential. His interest in Synthetic Biology was sparked by participating in the iGEM competition as a member of Team UCL, where they addressed global issues of plastic pollution and water scarcity by designing a bacterial co-culture capable of degrading plastic and desalinating water in a Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). A fun fact about him is that he is secretly a crazy cat lady.