I am currently a PhD student, researching neglected hypervariable protein families of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite. My research includes characterisation of these protein families both, biochemically in the wet laboratory and bioinformatically looking at protein sequence data. I am further interested in the human host immune response to malaria infection, by looking at antibody titres against recombinant Plasmodium falciparum proteins, investigating individuals from various sub-Saharan Africa settings with variable disease and demographic profiles. Moreover, I am aiming to investigate if massive drug administration interventions have an effect to protein recognition and antibody positivity and if serosurveillance using these novel tools can be used as a proxy to malaria transmission in a population level.

I am also working as a molecular biology Research Assistant, based in the MRC Unit The Gambia @ LSHTM, working on a double-blinded cross sectional massive drug administration clinical trial, looking on the effect of Ivermectin to the reduction of malaria transmission and subsequent disease incidence in the Bijagos Archipelago of Guinea Bissau (MATAMAL).