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I am a mathematician with expertise in optimisation and operations research. I am particularly interested in problems that are difficult to solve directly by mixed integer programming (MIP) solver. To this end, I have developed extensive experience in decomposition techniques, such as Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation and Benders' decomposition. During my time as a postdoctoral researcher I contributed to the constraint integer programming solver SCIP. My expertise in operations research, optimisation and solver development brings me to my current role at GAMS, where I am involved in optimisation projects and supporting the newly formed solver development team. I am excited about starting up at GAMS and working on quite a wide array of optimisation-focused projects.Prior to my transition to industry, I was on the academic career path. After my PhD in Mathematics, I completed a three year posting at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany. Following that, I had the wonderful opportunity to focus on my own research after being awarded an EPSRC Fellowship in 2017. I first took up this fellowship in the Management Science department of the Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom. Then, in making life decisions, I decided to finish that fellowship at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. This led to me becoming a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Exeter. Finally, I made the jump from academia to industry, first at Quantagonia and now at GAMS.