Our Team

Lior strongly believes that natural world holds the solutions to all our problems, and if nature does not give us the answers, we must be asking the wrong questions. In his spare time Lior likes to read, swim and boulder. He would love to scuba dive at the Great Barrier Reef one day - as long as it's not the deadly Irukandji jellyfish season!

He-Shyan seeks to understand diseases of aging, and find new ways to treat them. Studying and examining our genomes may yield the cause and cure for such diseases. Outside of science, he runs around Sydney a fair bit, apprciating its urban wildlife - his favourite is the pied currawong, and his least favourite is the mosquito.

Adnan has always had an interest in the weird and the wacky, and now he wants to know more about the pathology behind rare diseases. In his free time, he goes climbing and sews occasionally. The Australian animal he is most scared of is the inland taipan.

Kitty is facinated by personalised medicine and the way DNA can hold the answers to treating diseases. In her free time, she likes to paint, climb and is attempting to teach herself calisthenics. Kitty is both terrified and absolutely captivated by Great White Sharks.

Carlo thinks there is nothing cooler than science, and there is nothing he would rather be studying. In his spare time Carlo likes to read, play the piano listen to classical music (especially Mahler) and spend quality time with his friends.

Marco is mesmerised by the fact that from an unthinkably complex synchrony of lifeless molecules emerges a living, breathing being that is aware of its own existence. In his spare time Marco loves playing the piano and drums, and also enjoys training as a middle distance runner.

Victoria is passionate about further bringing artificial intelligence and quantum technology into the world of healthcare and medical technologies. In her spare time you can find Victoria on a bushwalk/hike, or sketching something while vibing to Nirvana.

Albert is passionate about the critical role of science and medicine in providing effective and robust healthcare. When he isn't working in science or reading texts in Ancient Greek, he intensely follows the National Basketball Association and loves playing basketball.

Eleana is endlessly enthralled by the ceaseless complexity of biological systems, which seem so perfectly optimised they almost have minds of their own. In her spare time Eleana loves playing piano and guitar, singing with friends, reading poetry, listening to and shopping for vinyl records and cassette tapes and going to concerts and musicals.

Jade is captivated by the complexities of genetics, especially in understanding how epigenetics influences disease. Her hobbies include reading, eating ice-cream and watching videos of cute dogs, which never fail to bring a smile to her face.

Dr Yu Heng Lau is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and was awarded his PhD in Chemistry in 2015 at the University of Cambridge. His work primarily revolves around using organic chemistry and synthetic biology to control the shape and assembly of peptides and proteins to design new medicines, materials, and catalysts.

Following her PhD, Dr. Constance Bailey worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkley and is currently a senior lecturer currently at the University of Sydney. Her research is primarily focused on developing synthetic biology applications of polyketide synthases as a "plug and play" platform to generate a range of valuable chemicals.

Clement is a research assistant at the University of Sydney. He aims to bridge the gap between lower-order biophysical research and higher-order cellular function to unravel some of the mechanistic mysteries behind chromatin remodelling, specifically studying the CDH4 chromatin remodelling enzyme. Ultimately, he hopes to use that knowledge to better understand the process of gene regulation.