Welcome to Holly Mitchell, who joins as a TECS CDT student with Carmen Galan and Tom Oliver. She graduated with an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Reading in 2023, having spent her third year studying abroad at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her final-year project focused on the synthesis of novel photocleavable protecting groups for the photocontrolled release of glutamate molecules. Following graduation, she spent two years working at ATDBio (under Biotage) as an oligonucleotide chemist before leaving in 2025 to join the TECS CDT. She is working on the developing novel photoswitches targetting G-quadruplex DNA.