Since September 2011, I am a PhD student in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Prof Andrew Ranicki. My mathematical interests include Surgery theory, cutting and pasting of manifolds and TQFT. At the moment I am taking part in the Surgery Study Group. I am part of the oranising committee for the Young Researchers Meeting that will take place in Edinburgh from 17 to 20 June 2013. Apart from mathematics, my other passion in life is playing the piano.