How I got here
I studied Chemistry at UCL before completing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. Throughout both, I was constantly drawn to the teaching side of things, mentoring students, running outreach, as well as 1-to-1 tutoring.
Most of the students I work with aren't struggling because they lack ability. They've lost confidence somewhere along the way, a topic that moved too fast, a teacher who didn't have time to stop, an exam that knocked them sideways. My job is to find where that happened and rebuild from there. There's nothing quite like watching a student go from dreading a subject to feeling like they actually own it.
Outside of teaching, I'm genuinely in the things I teach. I tinker and build things that don't work the first time, and I spend probably too long figuring out why. There's something deeply satisfying about the moment a circuit does exactly what you intended, or a piece of code finally runs clean, and I think that enthusiasm is contagious in a session.