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A pioneer in plant metabolomics and computational biology. His lab uncovers the hidden chemistry of plants and uses machine learning to predict how new molecules might be made. In 2024, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the “TerpenCode” project and joined the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. His research has appeared in journals from Nature Biotechnology to Nature Plants, placing him at the intersection of computation and discovery.