EF Alumni

Phil Haynes

CTO, PentaBind

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Interests / background:

AI, Biotechnology, Physics

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London

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Phil is closing his PhD in Molecular Biophysics at UCL and Imperial College London. He is an expert in deciphering how DNA interacts with small molecule therapeutics and proteins, partnering with AstraZeneca and several other research groups. He is a specialist in AI and microscopy R&D across London and California.

Company:

PentaBind

AI-powered aptamer discovery, unlocking the next generation of continuous monitoring biosensors and therapeutics.

Daniel Partida

MSc in applied mathematics from ETH Zurich. Passion for web3 with deep expertise in NLP/AI.

Moritz Gessl

WHU graduate, co-founded crypto start-up and built companies for an incubator, in crypto since 2017.

Amine Afia

CTO, Blocktorch

KIT & INP Grenoble grad. Specialist in building & leading teams to deliver SaaS products at scale.

Damodar Sojka

Experienced CTO. Built two-sided marketplaces. Passion for using Web3 to solve Web2 inefficiencies.

Adrian Ahne

CTO, Akuity Care

PhD in AI applied to digital health, studying psychological factors of chronic diseases.

James Hastwell

CTO, CarbonFarm

Ex-Head of Data Science managing 15 engineers. Big-data product expert. École Polytechnique grad.

Daniel Sozonov

Founder of leading applied ML company in facial recognition for access control and payments.

Dilip Rajeswari

Led the R&D team, working at the intersection of Machine Learning, Neuroscience and Psychiatry.

Bali Lee

PhD in Neuroscience. Five years establishing preclinical, translational and clinical collaborations.

Tom Gotsman

CEO, SoLo Protocol

Oxford, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Machine learning researcher. Previous AI startup manager.

Kit Burgess

Founding-team engineer at US$100M Startup. Cambridge Mathematician.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Adithya Narayanan

Masters from Harvard University. Strong business, commercial and design skills. Experienced leader.

Vishal Bhalla

TU Munich graduate, with an AI major. Specialist in NLP and personal assistants R&D.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Vibhor Saran

Ex VP - Data Science Team at Dozee, with 3 patents on applied Digital Signal Processing.

Sakshi Udeshi

CTO, Lumeros AI

PhD, Machine Learning Testing from SUTD. Discovered 100K+ bugs in Google, Microsoft and Amazon’s AI.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Admond Lee

Physicist turned full-stack data scientist.

Burhan Ul Tayyab

AI Researcher with Global Awards.

Fannie Lin

Repeat Entrepreneur and founder. PhD.

Negin Nahoomi

CTO, Speech Titan

NLP Engineer with experience developing AI products from R&D to production

Siyavash G. Nia

Former VP of Product, dual masters in Tech & Science, built FDA approved AI medical imaging product

Justin Macorin

2x founder focused on ML & cybersecurity. Built & sold enterprise SaaS to Fortune 500s

Naveen Vedula

Artificial Intelligence PhD with expertise in computer vision and hardware

Charles Ashby-Lepore

CTO, Metacommerce

Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Machine Learning. Ex Co-Founder, Koïos Intelligence.

Siddharth Sharma

#13 @ Wayve. Deployed real-time Machine Learning on autonomous vehicles. Ex-Microsoft.

Tom Etminan

Founded 2nd Gen Art NFT project on Solana. 2x founder. web3 investor

Michael Baumgartner

2x founder, extensive experience with sales and product, Master’s from CBS

Reza Zolfaghari

Deep Learning/Computer Vision PhD, expert scientist in video creation

Robert Van Den Bergh

Prev CEO & Founder @ VC backed robotics and AI company. Expert in growth marketing and partnerships.

Cameron Whitehead

Previously Senior Engineer at Series A tech company. Expert in building scalable consumer solutions.

Rory Ryan

3x founder, exited 1x biotech company, experienced in engineering, 3 years working in Shenzhen China

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Ojas Shukla

Second time founder. University of Singapore dropout. Successfully exited first company at age 19

Marcus Naughton

CEO/CTO, Chatsight

LLB Graduate, with Economics. Self-taught NLP/AI Engineer. Red Bull Basement national winner 2019

Brent Rohner

Exited founder (MarTech), B2C growth marketer and full-stack engineer.

David Bouba

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-Snap Inc. engineer building million-user scale software products

Pamela Carvallo

Machine learning specialist (PhD) & 2nd time technical founder.

Svend Court-Payen

Co-founded a video-first website builder. Expert in video, growth and social media.

Alesis Novik

Exited co-founder and CTO of AimBrain, formerly CERN and E Capital

Kacper Kielak

CTO, Quantum Boost

Software engineer specialising in machine learning and optimisation. Ex-Amazon and JPMorgan.

Rachiket Arya

NUS Science and Technology Scholar, with experience in building software products from scratch.

Oleksii Sidorov

Machine Learning expert who has built algorithms at Facebook AI Research and Oxford University.

Ivo Verhaegh

CEO, Powerhouse AI

Former founder and background in project leadership in innovation and process optimisation.

Majid Hasan

An economist and a data scientist with a Ph.D. in finance.

Jiale Tan

Driven by a mission to democratise access and analysis of ESG investing.

Maria Corlianò

Maria is an award-winning scientist and brings experience in the field of the gut microbiome.

Ian Chong

An experienced founder, founded & exited 2 businesses prior, specialising in performance marketing.

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Mansoor Rahimat Khan

CEO, Beatoven.ai

Engineer combining classical music training and a background in live and recording industry

Siddharth Bhardwaj

CTO, Beatoven.ai

Solved problems in audio signal processing, machine learning, deep learning & generative music

Anshul Basia

Worked on critical NLP based solutions at Microsoft, graduate from IIT Delhi

Arthur Wandzel

AI researcher specialising in computer vision and robotic decision making

Gui Wainwright

Ran data & special projects for 5x governments, 2x militaries, 3x startups, 1x unicorn & JAMM

Cuong To

CTO, Cinference

Expert in machine learning, previously lead data scientist at AI startup

Daan Zeeuwe

Experienced software architect and published researcher, worked on multiple AI-related projects

Dominik Lambersy

CEO, Text Cortex AI

Experience in venture capital, automation, AI, ex-Imperial College London

Carmine Paolino

Began programming at 5, developed machine learning and anti-corruption systems

Avik Mukhija

Machine learning scientist & entrepreneur, developed & sold AI solutions to grocery retailers

Ilan Palacci

Engineer, former CPO of AI startup

Nicolas Carmont

CTO, Connect Earth

Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Ludovico Mitchener

CTO, PhycoWorks

AI engineer & interdisciplinary scientist

Kit Logan

Founded a product studio at 14, winning awards for activity tracking products loved by 350k people

Charlie Leggate

Experienced founder and commercial strategist, grew a FitTech community from 0-450k

Lorenzo Ampil

CTO, Hawksight.co

Data scientist, built financial AI software for global enterprises and asset management firms

Walter Frank Pintor Ortiz

Expertise across industrial robotics and automation

Dr Dirk-Jan van Veen

Expert in optimising software agents to communicate and collaborate

Davy Smith

AI researcher with post-doc in interactive and adaptive broadcasting technologies

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Jesse Shemen

Graduate of Stearn Business School, previously Deloitte Ventures and Octopus Investments

Caleb Chiu

Expert in consumer applications, developed AI-enabled digital therapeutics

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Sagar Setu

CTO, Milky Way AI

Robotics and computer vision expert, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Eunice Wong

CEO, Milky Way AI

Award-winning retail professional

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sean Billings

Cloud + ML engineer going heads down on production-grade ML systems with OutPoint, Cambridge, Amazon

Yufan Wang

Co-founder, AIMS

Ph.D. in the area of wearable devices, artificial intelligence, and sports motion analysis

Audrey Gayman

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, TOffeeAM

PhD in Additive Manufacturing, expertise in robust analysis

Marco Pietropaoli

PhD in Fluid Dynamics, expertise in AI software for Additive Manufacturing

Gong Yiwei

Co-founder, VRcollab

Brings experience in network and distributed systems

Joshua Oppenheimer

CEO, Transformative

Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Sumukh Avadhani

AI expert, previously Samsung Creativity Lab, Toshiba and Google

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Misha Filippov

Chief Scientist, Quod AI

Mathematical physicist, built AI models for prestigious institutions

Kaveh Taghipour

PhD in Natural Language Processing, developed information extraction and text classification systems

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Haoyu Bai

Co-founder, Movel

PhD in Computer Science with experience in AI and robotics

Mislav Stipetic

CTO, Magic Sandbox

Full-stack engineer, previously led the IoT platform at Infarm

Yazan Al Alami

Co-founder, Creative AI

Helped local and global brands 10x their reach and engagement on social media

Lukas Dirzys

CTO, Creative AI

Expert in optimised image and text generation

Laura Douglas

Experience building AI health products, degrees in Machine Learning and Statistics

Alex Reed

Degree in commerce, led creation of AI driven buying experience

Nick La Rooy

Co-founder, LoopPerfect

Full-stack developer, ex-Barclays Capital with MA in AI and Philosophy

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Alan Mosca

Researched deep learning theory and optimisation methods, previously worked in quantitative finance

Dev Amratia

Led national review on AI, ex-project manager

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

2x CTO with a track-record of implementing scalable and disruptive machine learning solutions

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

Experienced in R&D, applying AI & ML solutions to various real world problems

Dr Elias Willemse

CTO, Waste Labs

Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Lucas Lopez

CTO, Volatile AI

Award winning digital smell researcher, built cutting-edge artificial neural networks

Dr Stefano Goria

Expert in mathematical modelling & multi-modal ML (17 years), PhD in Theoretical Physics, ex-quant

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

Expert in language use as cognitive biomarker (12 years), Neuroscience PhD, Innovation Award Winner

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Hugo Pascail

CTO, Invest Insight

PhD in Quantitative Finance, experience building AI models and econometric algorithms

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

CEO, Invest Insight

Worked on AI and web projects as an Agile Coach and Product Manager

Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

Maëliza Seymour

Experience as an IT project manager at global banks, machine learning graduate

Manasa Nadipally

Co-founder, Litmus Eye

Expert in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

Data scientist with PhD and postdoc in AI and experience in Machine Learning

Uzair Ahmed

CTO, Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Expertise across leadership, AI and software development

Shivam Mani Tripathi

Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Dornoosh Zonoobi

PhD in AI medical imaging, experience in leading clinical research

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Puneet Chhabra

CTO, Headlight AI

Experienced in LiDAR, Radar, and Sonar technologies, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Ali Safari

Trained as a nuclear engineer, passionate about using technology to impact climate change

Dmitry Vedenypain

PhD in AI and MBA, experience in consultancy and scaling product teams in VC-funded fintech

Zeena Qureshi

Speech and language therapy expert

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

Doctor and neuroscientist, previously Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Laina Emmanuel

CEO, Brainsight AI

Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

CTO, Brainsight AI

PhD in AI in Psychiatry from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

Hazel Savage

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

Aron Pettersson

Data science specialist, degree in Physics and Master's in Molecular Biology

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Alex Dalyac

Ex-Imperial College London, LSE and Rocket Internet, co-founded EF's first Unicorn, Tractable

Razvan Ranca

Computer scientist, previously Cambridge, worked with leading academic in Machine Learning

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Karim Benchaaboun

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

CTO, Phantasma Labs

MSc in Software Engineering, previously TU Munich, Brown University and Oracle

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Anshul Gupta

CTO, Retail Pulse

Engineering degree from NIT, led winning team in P&G Global AI Challenge

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

Chris Emery

Engineer programming since age 12, expert in 3D graphics and high-performance computing

Tomide Adesanmi

CEO, Circuit Mind

Electronics engineer, Master's from University of Leeds

Basilio Gentile

CTO, Circuit Mind

PhD in mathematical algorithms for complex systems from ETH Zurich

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in clinical AI algorithms for medical imaging and worked with global health systems

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Arun Bhatia

Master's in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.

Guillaume Rivals

Computer science and AI engineer, passionate about using data to fight climate change.

Dr Jordy Tasserie

Neuroscientist, PhD in Brain Stimulation & Medical Imaging (Paris), researcher Toronto & Harvard.

Jeffrey Schuster

CTO, Miist Therapeutics

Physics PhD with 30 years of industry experience developing advanced inhaled drug delivery systems.

Lucie Kriegshauser

Postdoctoral researcher in Plant Biotechnology. Focus on secondary metabolism & genetic engineering.

Brett Cotten

CEO, Arda Biomaterials

Alternative protein domain expert. Food and materials book author. Cambridge MBA for biotech (MBE).

Cyril Deroy

CSO, Celerity Labs

PhD Bioengineering at Oxford. Microfluidics & 3D print specialist. Work used in academia & industry.

Lazar Jovanovic

CTO, Summations

PhD graduate with 9 academic publications and multiple presentation awards in the last 4 years

Andrew Jajack

2x YC founder in diagnostics space with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Mark Caffrey

Applied Physicist, Biomedical & Electrical Engineer, PhD (c) Medical Tech NUI Galway, 2x CTO

Sujaan Das

CTO, Crane Biosciences

Biochem PhD at the Crick Institute, Curie Fellow. Experience in biochemical processing of cells.

Luca Bolondi

CEO, Crane Biosciences

Engineer experienced in growing deeptech startups, raised >$1M. Spent >1000hrs learning biotech.

Rory Ryan

3x founder, exited 1x biotech company, experienced in engineering, 3 years working in Shenzhen China

Dr. Emilia McLaughlin

PhD in cell and molecular biology, 6+ years experience studying evolutionarily diverse life forms

Madeleine Moscatelli

CTO, EndoGene.Bio

PhD & Post-Doc in Genetics & Epigenetics with extensive stem cell experience ex-Université de Paris

Maria Teresa Perez Zaballos

CEO, EndoGene.Bio

Ex-Merck Fertility Portfolio Expansion Manager. PhD in Medical Devices, & MSc in Biotech Management

Sujoy Deb

Expert in Advanced molecular biology and genomics

Divya Sriram

PhD in cancer biology, expert in innovating the infectious diseases diagnosis with molecular biology

Cuong To

CTO, Cinference

Expert in machine learning, previously lead data scientist at AI startup

Christian Wirsching

CEO, Cinference

Former management consultant with degrees in engineering and business

Dali Rashid

Post Doc in Plant Biotechnology with extensive experience in plant metal hyperaccumulation

Fabien Koutchekian

Former Strategy Consultant and Mining Engineer, 2nd time deep-tech startup founder

Alexandros Pantalis

Tech entrepreneur, built & managed successful startups in e-commerce, software development & fintech

Adèle James

PhD in molecular microbiology, one of 20 world experts in phage therapy applied to aquatic organisms

Gabriel Dumy

PhD in acoustophoresis with experience in developing cell growing acoustic devices

Amélie Quilichini

Engineer with experience in managing tech & hardware projects as a strategy consultant

Adam Glen

CTO, Unicorn Biotechnologies

PhD in cell biology, experience at the intersection of biology and engineering

Jack Reid

CEO, Unicorn Biotechnologies

Trained chemist and philosopher, experience developing and commercializing new technologies

Cristiana Banila

PhD in Molecular Epidemiology, developed cancer screening tool for NHS, Oxford and Princeton grad

Shakiba Kaveh

Developed and sold technologies to the skincare industry, PhD Materials Science from Cambridge

Giovanni Rovere

Developed biomedical wearables, ETH Zurich PhD graduate. Expert in acquiring data from the body

Ludovico Mitchener

CTO, PhycoWorks

AI engineer & interdisciplinary scientist

Stefan Grossfurthner

CEO, PhycoWorks

Prize-winning synthetic biologist with a PhD in algal biotechnology from Cambridge

Dr Dinaz Zenobia Stutterheim

Expert in advanced mechanics of materials, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Prakruti Kodali

Degree in Civil Engineering, experience driving growth strategy and innovation as a consultant

Yudi Ding

CEO, Hide Biotech

Cambridge PhD specialised in organic and protein chemistry

Ling Ka Yi

CTO, Shiok Meats

PhD in Endocrinology and Reproductive physiology, specialist in stem cells

Sandhya Sriram

CEO, Shiok Meats

PhD in Biological Science, specialist in stem cells, a serial entrepreneur, and a thought leader

Rishita Changede

CEO, TeOra.Life

Award-winning scientist, experience in genetic engineering, biosensors and biophysics

Kishan Kishan

Co-founder, Neurobit

Expert in bioelectronic design and soft condensed matter physics

Amiya Patanaik

Experience studying sleep and cognitive neuroscience. PhD in Computer Engineering

Amber Hill

Expertise in medical research and engineering, PhD in Biomedical Neuroscience

Ed Cartwright

Paediatric doctor with a PhD in Microbiology & Epidemiology

Micol de Ruvo

CTO, Cogniscent

PhD and postdoc in Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Kai Lammel

CEO, Cogniscent

Commercial experience in Marketing, Sales and Consulting

Carlos Chacón-Martínez

CEO, ManeBiotech

PhD in Cell Biology, experience in skin/hair stem cells & regenerative medicine

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Syed Shakeel Ahmed

PhD in Cancer Biology, experience leading collaborative projects with cancer clinics

Harold Mollison

Head of Sales and Marketing, Spidfier

Background in marketing and management

Stylianos Makrogkikas

Founder, FALCONBIO

PhD in Genome Engineering, experience in genetic manipulation

Nina Patrick

PhD in Drug Discovery and Development, previously senior scientist for biotech startups

Steven R Tsitas

PhD in Planetary Science, produced innovative work on 6U CubeSat

Sheetal Sinha

PhD in Biophysics, expert in microbial interactions & detection

Amit Kumar

PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dan Greenfield

Degrees in Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computer Engineering

Dimitris Athanasiou

CTO, Neurofenix

Master’s in Biomechanics, experience in medical device development and clinical trials

Guillem Singla Buxarrais

CEO, Neurofenix

Prize-winning biomedical engineer

Peter Clarke

CEO, Resurgo Genetics

Computational biologist

Will Moss

Data scientist and Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology graduate

Lionel Mora

Background in business and product, ex-Google

Patrick Torbey

PhD in Genome Editing with 3 published papers

Ewan Munro

CTO, Entropica Labs

Specialist in modelling physical platforms for quantum computing and information processing

Tommaso Federico Demarie

CEO, Entropica Labs

Physicist with experience in the field of quantum computing

Ernestas Sirka

Leading researcher in proteomics and clinical test development

Michael Dove

Worked in consulting and business development at top pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations

Quin Wills

Medical doctor with PhD in system genomics, founded Cellular and Systems Genomics department

Jack O’Meara

Biomedical engineer with experience bringing new technologies to market

Cesar Valencia-Gallardo

Former academic, deep expertise across biophysics and biotechnology

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

Impact-driven Bioengineer, specialised in Medical Device regulatory navigation and commercialisation

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

Experienced in R&D, applying AI & ML solutions to various real world problems

Aridni Shah

CEO, immunitoAI

Experience in immunoassays, molecular techniques & molecular data analytics

Dr Akhilesh Chaurasia

Leader in field of genetically modified organisms

Hubert Tse

Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Experience in financial services and software engineering

Dr Abhijit Salvekar

Co-founder, Polymerize

Polymer scientist with expertise in Process-Structure-Property Relationships and DoE.

Mona Kab Omir

Specialist in nanomedicine with multidisciplinary research experience in industry and academia

Alex Sheppard

Experience in the diagnostics industry space and successfully scaling medtech startups

Christopher Thompson

CTO, Micrographia Bio

Molecular biologist, machine learning engineer and roboticist

Julia Fan Li

CEO, Micrographia Bio

Immunologist and recovering VC

Andrea Mambrini

Award winning data scientist, developed bio-inspired algorithms for European Space Agency

Federico Paoletti

Award-winning computational oncology PhD, previously WHO

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Dr Akbar Vahidi

Co-founder, Allozymes

PhD in enzyme technology, delivered industrial projects to big pharma, food and biofuel companies

Dr Peyman Salehian

Co-founder, Allozymes

Entrepreneur-scientist, managed international team as Head of Business Development

Ian Hu

CTO, Phycobloom

PhD in Evolutionary Biology, experience studying algae, synthetic biologists and leading teams

John C. Waite

CEO, Phycobloom

Developed technology for sustainable energy with a background in Material Science

Christian Mellor

Expertise in Biomedical Engineering and medical devises

Jonathan Baptista

Experienced in managing international teams with an MSc in complex systems simulation

Aditya Nayak

CTO, Plantik Biosciences

Structural and molecular biologist, leader in field of Ambient Temperature Sensing in plants

Ying Shao

CEO, Plantik Biosciences

Experience in company building, leading business development, strategy and marketing

Ferdinando Randisi

CTO, FabricNano

Phd in Computational Biophysics, co-authored oxDNA

Grant Aarons

CEO, FabricNano

PhD in Economics, worked in systems engineering and mathematical modelling

Dr. Mohammad H. D.A. Farahani

Entrepreneurial scientist, PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Moses Kakanga

PhD in biochemistry, experienced running clinical trials

Emiliano Lepore

PhD in biomaterials with experience in product innovation and business development

Ali Naderi

Deep researcher in field of gas processing membranes

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Karol Rogowski

CTO, ElementZero Biolabs

PhD in Biochemistry, experienced in RNA/DNA research

John Moura

CEO, ElementZero Biolabs

Led product development, sales, and operations in global companies

Shubhita Tripathi

Pathogen expert with PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, designed pathogen identification assays

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

CTO, Nostos Genomics

Medical doctor with PhD in human genetics, previously Max Planck Institute

Joanne Kanaan

PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, research at the frontier of biochemistry and biophysics

Anna Shirinskaya

PhD in bioelectronics from Ecole Polytechnique, expert in bio-sensing devices

Hana Janebdar

Biochemical engineer, previously UCL and Imperial College London

Leighton Turner

Interdisciplinary scientist, PhD in Molecular Genetics

Alexandre Reeber

CEO, Core Biogenesis

Master's degree in Neuroscience, former project manager in Neurotechnology

Chouaib Meziadi

CTO, Core Biogenesis

PhD in Plant Genetics, postdoc in Epigenetics

Alexandra Boussommier

Biomedical engineer, using AI to tackle infertility

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Christopher Reynolds

CTO, Better Dairy

Synthetic biologists, led projects to optimise protein expression in cells

Jevan Nagarajah

CEO, Better Dairy

Experienced across banking and technology

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Praapti Jayaswal

Molecular and microbiologist combatting anti-microbial resistance

Marie-Christine Imbert

Molecular biologist

Timothy Bouley

Medical doctor and environmental scientist

Jeffrey Schuster

CTO, Miist Therapeutics

Physics PhD with 30 years of industry experience developing advanced inhaled drug delivery systems.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Tom Etminan

Founded 2nd Gen Art NFT project on Solana. 2x founder. web3 investor

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Alexandre Bonnet

MSc in Theoretical Physics, built data platforms behind largest FinTech & InsurTech startups in UK

Christoph Sträter

PhD in Theoretical Physics with expertise in deep learning and software development

Gabriel Dumy

PhD in acoustophoresis with experience in developing cell growing acoustic devices

Dr Saeid Masudy Panah

CTO, SunGreenH2

Award-winning scientist in field of nanoscale materials and renewable energy devices

Rishita Changede

CEO, TeOra.Life

Award-winning scientist, experience in genetic engineering, biosensors and biophysics

Kishan Kishan

Co-founder, Neurobit

Expert in bioelectronic design and soft condensed matter physics

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Michael Curtis

PhD simulating black holes, building web apps since age 12

Thomas Yue

Co-founder, MechaniX

PhD in Computational Physics, experience in algorithmic trading

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Steven R Tsitas

PhD in Planetary Science, produced innovative work on 6U CubeSat

Narasimha Suda

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

Master's in Physics and Mathematics, experience with data ranging from voice, images, and text

Sheetal Sinha

PhD in Biophysics, expert in microbial interactions & detection

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Ulf Bissbort

CTO, Synchronous

PhD in Theoretical Physics, experience in simulation and machine learning

Roeland Nusselder

Master’s in Mathematics, researched Efficient Deep Learning algorithms

Gabriel Lau

PhD in molecular physics, experience in numerical methods and local optimization techniques

Raphael Scheps

Trained theoretical physicist, with experience in large-scale data analytics

Dominic Hosler

Software engineer, PhD in Relativistic Quantum Communication

Jack A. Cohen

PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics, lifelong maker and creator

Alex Kosenkov

Experience in high performance computing

Misha Filippov

Chief Scientist, Quod AI

Mathematical physicist, built AI models for prestigious institutions

Sam Shannon

Ex-quantitative trader, graduate in Particle Physics

Ewan Munro

CTO, Entropica Labs

Specialist in modelling physical platforms for quantum computing and information processing

Tommaso Federico Demarie

CEO, Entropica Labs

Physicist with experience in the field of quantum computing

David Wood

Data scientist, PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Jack Weston

PhD researching sequential pattern recognition problems in particle physics using deep learning

Dimitri Labat

PhD in theoretical physics with expertise in superconductivity and its applications

Jon Forester

Built data and analytics products in startups and finance sector

Dr Stefano Goria

Expert in mathematical modelling & multi-modal ML (17 years), PhD in Theoretical Physics, ex-quant

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Matthew Wilson

Co-founder (Commercial), Omnipresent

Experienced entrepreneur and technologist

Ferdinando Randisi

CTO, FabricNano

Phd in Computational Biophysics, co-authored oxDNA

Pedro Freire Silva

Expert in low-cost Nuclear Magnetic Resonance solutions, ex-researcher at world-leading institutions

Jameel Marafie

CEO, Headlight AI

Worked in business development, financial management and R&D consulting

Dr. Ravi Kumar

CTO, Atomionics

Expert in experimental quantum physics, one of few people to build a cold atom setup from scratch

Ali Safari

Trained as a nuclear engineer, passionate about using technology to impact climate change

Laurence Bargery

Developer, skilled in producing high-quality usable scalable software in a production environment