I’m a research engineer and founder committed to abating climate change.
I’m based in London, with roots in Australia and Singapore.
My work, in industry and academia, focuses on decarbonisation and a green future. During my PhD I co-founded Airhive, a direct air capture company that builds machines and projects that remove carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere.
Airhive and private sector
I’m currently CTO at Airhive, a company that leverages “fluidisation” technology to speed up the deployment of low cost and energy direct air capture. I have also consulted in technical roles and served as a scientific advisor for green technology developers.
Academia
I did a PhD in decarbonising industry at Imperial College London, supervised by Prof. Paul Fennell and Prof. Nilay Shah in the Department of Chemical Engineering. I was a research fellow at African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Senegal (see the lovely beach view from the institute below), and taught undergraduate Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics, and more.
Education
I spent four years at the University of Cambridge studying a BA and MEng in Physical Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering. Between degrees I worked at Meatable, a Netherlands-based company growing cell-based meat from stem cells, without the need for animals.
Selected articles:
1. Business Green, 2024. Bottling it: Coca-Cola to trial use of direct air captured carbon in its soft drinks.
2. CNBC, 2024. Stripe, Shopify, H&M spend $7 million on carbon removal from a dozen new companies.
3. Canada Newswire, 2024. Deep Sky and Airhive to Deploy One of the World's Largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) Units in Canada.
4. XPRIZE, 2024. 20 Teams Bring Cutting-Edge Solutions to XPRIZE Carbon Removal Final.
5. The Chemical Engineer, 2024. Air Apparents.
6. Businesswire, 2024. AirMiners Announces 20 Teams Selected for Kiloton Fund Carbon Removal Investments with Shopify Offering $100K Purchase to Each Team
7. Engineering Matters Awards, 2025. Shortlist award.
8. Third Derivative, 2023. Cohort 23-3.
9. Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, 2023. Collaborative project to advance Direct Air Carbon Capture in the Teesside Cluster
10. Carbon Gap, 2024. Community engagement and carbon removal: four takeaways for policymakers.
Publications and patent:
1. Royal Society Publishing, 2023. A three-interface random pore model: the reduction of iron oxide in chemical looping and green steel technologies.
2. Chemical Engineering Research and Design Journal, 2023. Spouted fluidised bed reactor for kinetic measurements of the reduction of Fe2O3 in a CO/CO2 atmosphere part II: An extended random pore model for solid-state diffusion.
3. Langmuir Journal, 2022. Archimedean Spirals Form at Low Flow rates In Confined Chemical Gardens.
4. Energy and Fuels Journal, 2024. Kinetics of CO2 Capture with Calcium Oxide during Direct Air Capture in a Fluidized Bed.
5. International Patent Publication, 2023. Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide.
Talks, podcasts, videos and posts:
1. This is CDR by Open Air, 2024. Spotify podcast and Youtube video.
2. Airhive, 2024. Our tech video.
3. Bite size climate tech, 2024. Spotify podcast, Youtube video 1 and Youtube video 2.
4. On the Brinc | The business of climate tech: Airhive Co-Founder on Entrepreneurship, 2024. Youtube video and Spotify Podcast.
5. Engineering Matters Awards, 2025. Podcast.
6. National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2024. Direct Air Capture International Test Centre Panel Talk.
7. DAC Coalition. Global Direct Air Capture Conference Talk, 2023.
8. Third Derivative, Cohort 2023. LinkedIn Post.