Atom Identity Optimization in Molecular Frameworks

As part of the Digital Chemistry Laboratory at ETH Zurich, I worked on finding atom identities in molecular frameworks, that optimize a target property, e.g. the HOMO-LUMO Gap, using Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) and semidefinite programming (SDP).

TpT Informer

Analytics and Management toolkit for TpT sellers. Peaked in 2024 with over 2500 Chrome extension users. Built with Next.js & Firebase. Launched a pro version with Stripe payments and got to $200 MRR. Supported by a ETH Juniors Grant. Discontinued in 2025.

ReactionChamber

I spent a good deal of my childhood and adolescence in our garage, where I built a home laboratory. Collecting chemicals, synthesizing compounds, and blowing stuff up was my passion. Later I started uploading videos of my experiments to YouTube.

While I discontinued the channel, I recently did some chemical precipitation reactions in a drop of water. The idea was first popularized by a Chinese TikTok (Douyin) channel 难晴雨. I tried to recreate the experiments and am pretty happy with the results. I'm pretty surprised with the traction the videos got - just in two weeks, both hit 10M+ views. Watch them here.

Some infographics I created for my discontinued Instagram, as part of ReactionChamber:

Squeeze

In a team of 4, we built a microfluidic device that exploits viscoelastic fluids to squeeze cells, allowing it to be used for transfection. Simulated and optimized the device using COMSOL. Final report can be found here.