Summary
Nadanai Laohakunakorn is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and interdisciplinary researcher with eight years of experience at the interface of physics, biology and engineering, focused on quantitative cell-free synthetic biology and predictive engineering of simplified biological systems. Trained at Cambridge (PhD in Biophysics), he builds foundational tools—combining biophysics, microfluidics, Bayesian inference and machine learning—to model and program genetic circuits outside living cells. His track record spans postdoctoral work at EPFL and academic fellowships at Edinburgh, where he translates mechanistic insight into reproducible experimental platforms for the emerging cell-free community. Unusually for a scientist in this space, he is also an active classical pianist and vocal coach who performs internationally, bringing creativity and disciplined practice from the concert stage into collaborative lab leadership.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at University of Cambridge
Winchester College
Thai, French, English