Members

Join Us!

We are now actively recruiting at Oxford

Incoming team members: We are looking forward to Ellie, Lorna, Xhoela, and Yaren joining us in the near future as postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate researchers. Unfortunately, our lab is currently full for Part-II thesis students for the 2025-26 academic year, but we welcome interested prospective undergraduate researchers to get in touch for future years.

PI and Postdoctoral Members

Yimon Aye, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Ph.D. 2009, Harvard University, USA

B.Chem & M.Chem. 2000-2004, University of Oxford, UK

Member since July 2012
Translocated to Oxford in Oct 2024
Favorite Pastimes: Outreach & community give-back, learning something new

Dalu Chang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. 2020, University of Geneva, Switzerland

M.S. 2015 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, China

B.S. 2012 University of Science and Technology, China

Member since October 2020
Translocated to Oxford in Spring 2025
Favorite Pastimes: Hiking, skiing

Kevin Fridianto, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher and Human Frontiers Science Program Fellow

Ph.D. 2021, National University of Singapore, Singapore

B.S. 2014, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Member since July 2023
Translocated to Oxford in Oct 2024
Favorite Pastimes: Reading, hiking, playing the piano, movies, learning new languages

Xin Liang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. 2025, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

B.S. 2016, Northeast Normal University, China

Member since June 2025
Favorite Pastimes: Enjoying good food, horse-riding and spending time with animals

Julie Gilbert, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. 2024, Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), Montpellier, France

M.S. 2021, National School of Chemistry of Montpellier (ENSCM), France

Member joining us in August 2025
Favorite Pastimes: Bouldering, baking, and reading

Jinmin Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. 2025, EPFL, Switzerland

M.S. in Chemical Biology, 2020, UNIGE and EPFL, Switzerland

B.S. in Chemical Biology, 2018, Peking University, China

Member since Jan 2019 (as master student); Mar 2020 (as PhD student); and translocated to Oxford to begin postdoctoral studies in Spring 2025
Favorite Pastimes: playing the guitar

Ádám Póti, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. 2024, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary

B.Sc. & M.Sc. 2010-2014, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary

Member since July 2025
Favorite Pastimes: TBA

Xhoela Bame, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher and Novo Nordisk Oxford Program Fellow

Ph.D. 2025, Dartmouth College, NH, USA

B.Sc. 2020, Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye

Member joining us in Fall 2025
Favorite Pastimes: TBA

Graduate Students

Lorna Birkby

MSc research student

B.S. Honours in Biology and Chemistry, 2025, University of Durham, UK

Member joining us in October 2025
Favorite Pastimes: TBA

Yaren Karakoc

MSc research student

B.Sc. in Molecular Biology & Genetics, and B.Sc. in Chemistry, 2025, Bogazici University, Turkiye

Member joining us in October 2025
Favorite Pastimes: TBA

Undergraduate Researchers

Ellie Dennis

Part II thesis research student

Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Member joining us in October 2025
Favorite Pastimes: TBA

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