What is iniphi?
1. Prefix: in-
From Latin in- (preposition) meaning “into”, “within”, or “toward”
2. Root Verb: facere / ficāre
From Latin facere (“to make”, “to do”) and ficāre (a causative suffix: “to render”, “to bring into a state”).
In compounds, -ficāre gives us verbs like:
– clarify (from clarus + ficare) – to make clear
– sanctify – to make holy
– modify – from modus (measure) + facere → “to bring into a new form or mode”
So: in- + -ficare → “to bring something into being,” or “to render into form.”
And the φ?
The Greek letter phi (φ) is the golden ratio (balance, natural proportion). It acts as a quiet gesture toward form.
Who am i?
I trained as a photochemist, then spent a year learning to teach it → and came out the other side building my own version of a classroom instead.
Since my postdoc I trained as a science teacher — a PGCE at King’s College London, finished this July. Being in front of a classroom and teaching a subject was thoroughly enjoyable; schooling as an institution was the part that didn’t fit my ethos.
During my time at King’s I developed my skills in AI productivity, which have let me keep a handle on a slightly sprawling number of research projects and ideas I want to develop. This site is where I’ll be acting on and presenting a lot of that, alongside writing, book reviews, and research notes — all of it my own.
Throughout, I keep coming back to philosophy of science, and in my spare time I’m starting to work out what actually makes a scientific claim count as accepted, and how much of that is about the argument versus who’s making it.
Outside the lab and the classroom I don’t sit still on one shelf → I read faster than I can act on it, shoot and develop black-and-white film by hand, and I’m restless enough that the multi-project shape of everything here isn’t an accident. It’s closer to a diagnosis than a strategy.
I completed my undergraduate studies in chemistry at the The University of Liverpool in 2017. Following this I undertook my PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Ruben Martin, completing my thesis titled “Catalytic transformations enabled by dual nickel-photoredox manifolds” which was defended in November 2022.
From May 2023 I moved to Basel (CH), to work with Professor Thomas Ward on the development of new to nature reactivity using Artificial Metalloenzymes, specifically a palladium catalysed process within streptavidin.
This is the space where I try to do that.
