Senior Editor - Nature Synthesis / August, 2025 — Present

Senior Editor - Communications Materials / August, 2022 — August, 2025

Leading the chemistry, energy, and biomaterials content at Communications Materials, a young open access journal from the Nature Portfolio. Makes editorial decisions on the impact and soundness of submitted manuscripts, in addition to managing a team of external editorial board members. Supported manuscript handling at Nature Chemistry, Nature Water and Communications Chemistry as a Consulting Editor. Provided editorial support to make decisions on papers submitted to Nature, Nature Energy, and Nature Communications. Co-led the bio, supramolecular, and organic chemistry Nature community where editors across the Nature Portfolio join to discuss the research sphere. Highlighting interesting research published by the community by writing Research Highlights in Nature Research and Nature Reviews journals. Attended chemistry and materials science conferences globally, including co-organising a Nature Conference on Functional 2D Materials.

JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow / October, 2019 — July, 2022

Senior researcher in renowned research group (Takuzo Aida) funded by prestigious fellowship application. Independently made an important discovery, while supporting students’ research in my sub-group as a team. Funding: ¥11,588,000. Fellowships aim at supporting the mobility of excellent experienced researchers and are awarded to only 10.6% of applicants. • Complex dataset interpretation, bridging multiple physico-chemical phenomena together to uncover unprecedented trends and presented in an easy-to-understand format for team to understand. • Intuitively shifted project difficulties to success. Confronted challenge of experiments failing for months with rational literature search and new ideas that U-turned project into novel serendipitous discovery. • Valorized important publication to general audience by understanding scientific content, highlighting its significance, and maintaining scientific diligence. Published in prestigious journal, Nature Chemistry. • Communicated results in conferences with positive feedback about high-quality work and ease of understanding. 2nd place prize for best presentation in 2021 summer research meeting (top 6%). • Lectured high school students about my research topic in a scientifically accurate non-expert story-telling format. Positive engagement led to headteacher immediately requesting second lecture after. • Mentored students’ research direction, presentation guidance, and writing corrections. One student won a conference presentation award. Results of other student are being written up for publication. Invited talk: Advanced Functional Materials from Porous Assembly Design 1st UK-Japan Symposium on Advanced Materials for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, Online, December 2021. Conferences: Faraday Discussion 225: Cooperative Phenomena in Framework Materials, Online, October 2020 CEMSupra2019, The University of Tokyo, Japan, December 2019.

Outreach Lecturer - Science Dialogue / December, 2020 — August, 2021

Lecturing high-school students about the joys of research and thinking outside their immediate opportunities to foster the next generation of scientists. • Tailored my research lecture to an understandable non-expert format. • Taught the differences between UK and Japan university systems and how to become a global researcher. • Positive engagement led to the headteacher requesting a second lecture after. • Both in-person and online lectures were presented.

Program-Specific Assistant Professor / September, 2018 — August, 2019

Group leader aiding in leading a team of 10 researchers. Input ideas for new research directions in group. Direct mentorship of students up to publication. Formed collaborations for new research opportunities. Oversaw lab operation, equipment ordering, and safety. • Led the electrochemical energy storage and functionalized carbon research in group. The team’s research focused on new sustainable energy materials to replace current polluting technologies. Devised new research directions, experiments, equipment ordering, results organization, and publication paper writing for the team. • Discovered greener method to low-cost porous organic polymers via rapid and sustainable synthesis. Identified critical parameters and optimized results by DOE: monomer, catalyst, solvent type, stoichiometry, reaction time, milling speed. • Represented the team by communicating research at conferences, including invited talk to Japan-UK energy conference. Developed networks which has led to successful Daiwa Foundation Award fund. • Managed safety in the laboratory, ensuring members obeyed personal protective equipment (PPE) rules, checked the materials safety data sheet (MSDS) before ordering chemicals, and handled chemicals and equipment in a safe way. Mitigated risks before possible occurrences, i.e., using blast shield in pressurized reactions, cryogenic gloves when handling dry ice and liquid N2, etc. • Direct mentorship of students, with daily research meetings, providing honest feedback in friendly manner, and research direction needed to publish. Resulted in co-authorship of students’ paper. • Written compelling columns about how Twitter can enhance research and getting out of comfort zone, targeting the general scientific audience. Extremely high engagement. Published in Nature and Science. Invited talk: Functionalized Electroactive Carbons from Predesigned Polymer Frameworks Kyushu University Energy Week 2019, Kyushu, Japan, January 2019.

JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow / August, 2017 — July, 2018

Successful prestigious fellowship to undertake research with pioneering group (Susumu Kitagawa). Developed new electrocatalysts using unique strategies. Funding: ¥3,740,000. Fellowships aim at supporting the mobility of excellent experienced researchers and are awarded to only 24.1% of applicants. • Brought expertise in organic synthesis and electrochemistry to group specializing in inorganic materials. • Discovered leading oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst using porous coordination polymer materials and a new alloying strategy. Sustainable Fe/Cu alloy catalyst outperforms costly Pt benchmark. • Built Excel models to output catalyst plots to find both quantitative and qualitative trends. Organization and intuitive data extraction from large dataset cross-comparisons led to success. • Independently initiated and led own project while sharing results with cross-disciplinary team for technical discussions. Provided English writing assistance. Conferences: The 67th conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (09/2017) - Hokkaido University 22nd Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (04/2018) - Wasada University. Symposiums: 3rd iCeMS-VISTEC Joint Symposium (01/2018) - VISTEC, Thailand

Doctoral Student / October, 2013 — June, 2018

Initiated new research topics on sustainable energy materials in prominent research lab (Andrew I. Cooper FRS). Independence and aptitude for high-quality work led to 5 first-author publications during PhD—the most in my year. • Developed high performance, cost-effective water purification materials that capture mercury and gold. • Discovered top H2 and CO2 gas storage material by synthesis and engineering highly porous carbon. • Publications garnered many citations due to impact. Co-corresponding authorship due to leadership. • Strategized new research program. Proposed successful electrochemistry project as new research topic that was previously unexplored in large team. Required independent literature reading, equipment ordering and setup, and networking with experts to gather new skills. Future members continued project. • Strong writing and communication skills from publishing research and review in top journals—review published in Chemical Reviews, one of the oldest and most prestigious journals. Gave multiple presentation in polymer, electrochemistry, energy, carbon, CO2, and materials science conferences. 5 first-author peer-reviewed works: 4 research articles, 1 review article. 8 publications in total during PhD. Conferences: Macro Group Young Researcher's Meeting (07/2014) - Durham University Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in Electrochemistry (07/2014) - Sheffield University Macro Group Young Researcher's Meeting (04/2016) - Liverpool University Faraday Discussion 192: Carbon Capture and Storage (07/2016) - Sheffield University Nano Energy (07/2016) - Liverpool University Electrochem 2016 (08/2016) - Leicester University Advanced Energy Materials 2016 (09/2016) - Surrey University Faraday Joint Interest Group Conference 2017 (04/2017) - University of Warwick Faraday Discussion 201: New Directions in Porous Crystalline Materials (06/2017) - Edinburgh University 13th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC13; 07/2017) - Liverpool

Graduate Teaching Assistant / July, 2013 — August, 2017

Taught undergraduate students in lecture hall and laboratory in interdisciplinary chemistry topics. • Taught fundamental chemistry labs to year 1, 2, and 3 students. Experiments include multi-step synthesis, operation of world-class equipment such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and lab book writing. I marked lab books, providing a grade and feedback to improve on both the reporting and experimental handling. Enforced safety rules, such as wearing PPE and waste disposal. • Friendly and approachable teaching style led to students mentored from other groups joining mine. • Lectured workshops in organic chemistry and computational chemistry. Students were provided tasks to solve in class and I assisted by providing logical hints from the knowledge they have been taught. • Hand-picked by professor to assist teaching laboratory experiments to visiting high school students to the university. Taught students chemical identification and characterization skills. Ensured safety. • Qualified teacher – Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). My teaching responsibilities also extended to STEM activities for schools and colleges at the university.

Research Scientist / June, 2011 — August, 2011

Prof. Steve Rannard laboratory. Formulations chemistry of hydrophobic organic nanoparticle interactions in water. • Developed formulations of active agents, polymers, and surfactants. • Analysis by UV-Vis and DLS. Awarded an EPSRC Vacation Bursary Programme Scholarship to conduct research. 1 peer-reviewed publication as an undergraduate.

STEM Ambassador / January, 2014 — August, 2017

Volunteered passion and expertise to inspire high school students to become next-generation scientists. • Explained the STEM system in industry and academia, why studying a STEM subject is significant, described my pathway of becoming a Ph.D.-level researcher, and presented hands-on activities. • Lectured nanotechnology during nanotechnology Nobel Prize year. School activity published online.

Research Scientist / May, 2015 — July, 2015

Prof. Chi-Chang Hu laboratory. Extensive electrochemistry research. • Supercapacitive energy storage of porous nitrogen-doped carbonaceous materials. • Electrochemical apparatus setup. • Hydrogen storage using electrochemistry. Awarded a Global Engineer Leadership (GEL) scholarship to conduct collaborative research. 2 peer-reviewed publications from this collaboration initiation.

Research Chemist / September, 2011 — September, 2012

• Developed new surfactant to aid polyvinyl chloride manufacturing at batch scale with 50% better performance than current market technology. • Conducted intellectual property searching on patent database to identify novel potential surfactant. • Supported scientific development to meet goals of clients. Liaison with multidisciplinary teams to deliver.