Dr Lewis is a post-doctoral researcher at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Benjamin Davis and Prof. Andrew Baldwin. She is working to expand the scope of uSTA experiments to cell-small molecule systems, particularly focusing on on-cell NMR.
Viliyana completed her BSc (Hons) Chemistry, achieving a First Class at the University of Reading (UoR) in 2018. In her second year at UoR she was awarded the prestigious Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) bursary to work on a project sponsored by Dstl, Porton Down under the supervision of Dr Andrew Russell and Prof. Wayne Hayes. The project culminated in the development of an organic probe for the detection of alkylating agents, such as mustard gas. During her master in research (MRes) degree at University College London (UCL) Viliyana worked on the characterisation of drug-MRI contrast agent interactions for the development of MRI-based theranostic systems and was awarded a Distinction for her work