I was born in Indonesia but spent most of my formative years abroad: high school in Singapore, followed by undergraduate studies at Cambridge and doctoral training at Harvard. I then returned to Singapore as a group leader at IMRE before taking my first faculty position at KAUST in Saudi Arabia. I am now an assistant professor at OIST, Japan. My research centres on the physics of droplets, wetting and adhesion science, and soft matter, with a more recent focus on contact electrification.