Biography

Born and raised in Sweden, I moved to the UK in 2012 to study chemistry at Imperial College London. I was immediately captured by the science of constructing organic molecules. In the sense that organic chemistry is often about constructing things, it is somewhat similar to engineering but with a fundamental twist - we can’t see anything that we make. This makes the field really exciting and having done research in various areas of chemistry at Stockholm University, Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, my PhD will focus on the functionalisation of carbon-hydrogen bonds. This area holds huge promise since these bonds exist in essentially every organic molecule important to human life and the ability to transform them will likely prove crucial in the development of drugs and functional materials in the future. My research will also make use of automated, computer-controlled technology which is currently transforming the chemical science as we know it. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to carry out this research in Cambridge over the coming years and to join the Gates Cambridge community of scholars from all over the planet.

Previous Education

Imperial College London