Mie earned her bachelor’s degree in plant sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK) which marked her first encounter with the complex interplay of RNA biology underpinning biological processes. This led to the completion of a Master’s in Synthetic and Systems Biology. Here, she joined the Kathryn Lilley group at the Cambridge Centre of Proteomics and was involved in the development of a novel method named OOPS (Orthogonal Organic Phase Separation) which enables the extraction of the RBPome (RNA-binding proteome) in an unbiased and dynamic manner. Having relished the dynamism of research, Mie pursued her graduate studies at the MRC Toxicology Unit (UK) with Prof. Anne Willis. Her work has included the implementation of an alternative tRNA sequencing pipeline to detect changes in tRNA populations with Illumina sequencing as well as the interrogation of dynamic RBPs across the bacterial growth curve. Further, as part of her PhD, she spent 6 months as a Data Scientist at the Centre of Genomics Research (AstraZeneca, UK) working under Dr Dimitrios Vitsios to use ML/DL to elucidate the genetic cause of disease from raw genomic sequences. She has recently become a Postdoctoral researcher in the Novoa lab, where she will further delve into the field of epitranscriptomics, conducting both experimental and computational research.

In her previous British existence, Mie spent her time as the locals did: taking care of her allotment, occasionally rowing and some knitting or baking on the rainy days. But now she is enjoying the constant access to basketball, spending time outdoors with friends and family and reading in the sun.