Unlike most members of OPIG, I don’t work on small molecules, antibodies, or protein structure; I use hypergraph representations of protein complexes to predict gene essentiality and drug targets. I have also had an unconventional route to get here, and on the way, discovered my love for learning and research.

Friends and family had noticed I jumped around with my interests, so much so that when we used to meet up, they took great delight in teasing me about what my current adventure was – ‘you don’t settle do you!’, ‘when are you going to find what you’re looking for?’, ‘why can’t you just stick to something’. Looking back, there was a pattern, I just couldn’t see it yet.