I am an environmental specialist and project manager with academic and leadership experience across the environmental, water management and agri-tech sectors.I currently project manage a review of water quality monitoring in Wales, strategy development for future data collection and coordinate the design of a sentinel network to detect emerging pressures and trends in water quality.I am also interested in all aspects of agri-tech, particularly controlled environment agriculture, where I have previously helped establish horticulture startups across Wales and managed a vertical farming innovation centre.My academic background and PhD research was in plant science, where I researched crop growth-promoting fungi and improved phosphorus cycling. I have experience of microbial ecology, next generation sequencing and assessing plant health through phenomics.