Wylan came to the UK from Hong Kong in 2015 to finish school and went on to obtain a BSc in Biotechnology at Imperial College London in 2021, working on computationally modelling autotroph-heterotroph microbial consortia with Prof. Patrik Jones after a placement year at Vienna Biocenter with Dr Julius Brennecke to investigate RNA interference in Drosophila. He moved to Scotland thereafter to pursue an EastBio-funded PhD at the University of St Andrews with Dr Craig P. Johnston in collaboration with the Wallace group, focussing on interfacing photocatalysis with whole-cell biocatalysis for synthetic applications. In 2025, Wylan returned to biology from his venture in organic chemistry to join the Wallace group as a PDRA, further pursuing his interest in engineering photo-dependent metabolic pathways.