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Groundbreaking Science

Groundbreaking Science

We rebuild biological catalytic machinery from its fundamental building blocks. Modelling an active site, designing a synthetic structure that reproduces it, then finding out at the bench whether it survives real conditions.

Most of what we try does not work. What survives is a catalyst that did not exist before, usually made by the person who designed it. That takes chemists, engineers and computational scientists in the same room.

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Far-reaching consequences

Far-reaching consequences

A catalyst is a very small thing. But it ultimately determines what feedstocks an industry can use, where production can happen, at what size, and what finally gets made.

So the work does not stop at the bench. Our first catalyst opens a route out of lignin, a material so tricky to work with that the world mostly burns it. The second targets a reaction the field has chased for decades.

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At Level Nine you would work alongside chemists, biologists, engineers and computational scientists who care about getting the fundamentals right. Rebuilding a catalyst from its building blocks is slow, exacting work, and the industries waiting for it do not accept approximations.

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A career with consequences

We work at a scale where a single bond determines whether a process is viable. Getting there takes curiosity, patience and rigour. If difficult technical problems and actual industrial consequences are what motivate you, there is a place here.

We take on problems others have written off. Lignin has defeated commercial routes for decades, which is exactly why we started there.

We sit between biology, chemistry, engineering and computation, and most of the useful answers are somewhere between them. That means asking people outside your discipline naive questions, often, and not minding being the least expert person in the room.

We publish results, not expectations. Claims are separated into demonstrated, in development and possible, and nobody here is rewarded for blurring the three. Elegance in a model counts for nothing until it works outside the lab.

A catalyst goes through many designs before one survives real feedstock. We change the approach when the evidence says to, and stay with the problem when it does not. Neither of those is the same as being stubborn.

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