This page will be focusing on my professional career as a molecular biologist. Most of my pages here feature my hobbies and creative outlets, and my goal was to showcase my work in one central space. To an outsider, this page may seem a little different, but this has always been my biggest passion and creative outlet. To me, art and science are not so different anyway. With this page I want to showcase my work and in the process hope to demystify it a little.

From a very young age, whenever people would ask me what I wanted to be, I would exclaim "an inventor!". I've always been super interested in science and fascinated by it as a child. I would mix my mother's fancy bath oils (shout out Kneipp) in the bath to see how they would combine (I'd call them 'Witch Potions'). I never really let go of this dream, although it did evolve over time. "Inventor" would become scientist, scientist would become biologist, biologist would become molecular biologist, and now I'm on my way to become a Doctor of muscle biology.

In high school, chemistry and biology class were equally fascinating. Chemistry was more exciting, but the theory behind it was always too abstract for me. Biology was more tangible but maybe a bit less exciting at the high school level. After high school, I went to college to follow a combined chemistry/biology track, one of which you could choose to pursue after the first year. After a year of even harder chemistry and more exciting biology, I was set on biology. I know what you might say, biology can be just as abstract as chemistry is (and you are right to say this, biology is just more convoluted chemistry anyway), but somehow biology just "clicked" in a way chemistry never did. After choosing biology, the next choice was between microbiology (basically diagnostics), molecular biology (more research focused), or zoology (laboratory animal science). Microbiology proved too boring, and I was way too sensitive for Zoology, so I (rightfully) chose molecular biology and never looked back.