Held an EPSRC Engineering Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology (January 2015 - February 2020). Lead PI on the UKRI-funded Engineering Biology Transition Award, 'Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Biology' Consortium (AI-4-EB). Also, with Prof Baldwin, leading a strategic initiative at Imperial College to develop new AI/machine learning methods and pipelines adapted to the challenges of data-based design and optimization of engineered living cells as part of the Imperial-X Initiative 'Closed-loop Interpretable AI for Biological Systems'.
Research Experience
Full Professor at Imperial College London since June 2019; Reader from August 2014 to June 2019; Lecturer from December 2009 to August 2014. Worked as a Research Associate in the Control Group at the University of Cambridge from January 2006 to December 2009, supported by EPSRC and an EU FP6 Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Senior DSP Engineer at Philips Applied Technologies (now Philips Research) from June to December 2005.
Education
Received a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences (with a focus on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems) from the University of Liège, Belgium in March 2005. Earned an electrical engineering degree (specializing in electronics) from the same university in June 2000.
Background
Research interests include synthetic biology and control engineering. Currently a professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, and the head of the Control Engineering Synthetic Biology group. Also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, Co-Director of the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, and Deputy Director of the EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in BioDesign Engineering.
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