I’m Ben, and I’m passionate about the applications of biology to solve environmental problems and positively impact society. I grew up in France and moved to the UK in 2017 to complete a BSc in Biotechnology at the University of Surrey. I moved to Scotland for a MSc in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, and begun my PhD in the Wallace lab in 2022.

During my previous degrees I have worked on the degradation of recalcitrant pollutants using microbial fuel cells in Dr Avignone-Rossa’s lab, as well as investigated the establishment of heterologous secretory systems in Prof Horsfall’s lab. I am now working on the microbial upcycling of plastic waste in the Wallace lab, funded by the IBioIC PhD programme in collaboration with Impact Solutions.