I am an activist, co-operative practitioner, and researcher based in Edinburgh, Scotland; currently serving on the board of SHRUB Co-operative, and as the Secretary for workers.coop. I am also an early-career co-operative development advisor, having graduated from the Barefoot programme in 2025, and recently joined Co-operate Scotland as an associate member. If you are interested in support for your co-operative, or to set up a new one, please get in touch.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh, working with Michele Ciampi, Raffaella Calabrese and Tzamaret Rubin on cryptographic protocols for Open Finance. I also worked with Input Output Global to research efficient hardware-based models for Zero Knowledge proofs. I obtained my PhD from the ZK Labs at Edinburgh, working under the supervision of Markulf Kohlweiss, Myrto Arapinis and Pramod Bhatotia on formalising the use of Trusted Execution Environments in cryptographic protocols; the title of my thesis is Trusted Execution for Private and Secure Computation: a Composable Approach. You can find my academic publications here.

During my PhD, I served as a trustee at Edinburgh University Students’ Association, and as a member of Edinburgh Student Housing Co-Op. As part of my role at ESHC, I helped set up the local Edinburgh Co-operative meetup and contributed to the Short-lived working group on student homelessness for the Parliamentary Cross-party group at Holyrood, which resulted in this report.