After obtaining a PhD in bioengineering, I began working in the Optical Trapping Group at the University of St Andrews in 2004. I am keenly interested in how optical tweezers can be applied to modern biological questions. In my research, I investigate photoporation, laser-guided neuron growth, and single cell manipulation by tweezing. I am particularly fascinated by the use optical tweezers as a tool to enable long term single cell culture and analysis; they are the ultimate instrument for lab-on-a-cell experimentation.