Project lead for motor protein development in Development Biologics,. I oversee the end to end process of design/engineering, purification, testing/assay development and analysis of improved motor proteins. Directly developed the E8.2 and E8.2.1 enzymes leading to the highest accuracy nanopore sequencing yet. I manage a team of two reports and collaborate directly with many stakeholders including other R&D teams, productions teams and senior management.I followed an undergraduate interest in DNA-Protein interactions developed in my undergraduate degree to study a PhD examining the mechanism of the helicase like domain of the restriction enzyme EcoP15I triggering long range diffusion on DNA in the Szczelkun lab at Bristol. My research was published in a first author paper in Nature Chemical Biology. I gained skills in enzyme assay development and analysis (particularly Stopped Flow methods), protein purification and molecular biology techniques. I also completed an industrial placement at New England Biolabs, using PacBio SMRT sequencing to uncover altered methylation patterns of de novo designed Restriction-Modification enzymes.I am strongly motivated by environmental concerns and successfully headed an initiative with EHS to introduce lab waste segregation, recycling and carboard BioBins to reduce plastic waste from the R&D labs. I am currently the R&D Environment representative for ONT's Values in Action program. We engage with our colleagues to bring ideas about improving sustainability to senior management stakeholders who can help us implement them.Outside of work I have been training in aerial circus for seven years, mostly in aerial silks, trapeze and recently counterbalance. I perform in local festivals and at fundraisers with my circus team, raising money for good causes. I am a keen seamstress and have committed to sewing most of my own clothes in recent years. I also dabble in silversmithing when I get the opportunity.