Education
Bioinformatics MSc, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2022
Human Nutrition MSc, University of Aberdeen, 2021
Awards and Honors
Aspire Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2025
Title VIII Research Grant, REEEC, UIUC/US Department of State, 2025
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Summer), REEEC, UIUC/US Department of Education, 2025
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Academic Year), REEEC, UIUC/US Department of Education, 2024
Merit Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2024 (declined)
Summer Predoctoral Institute Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2024
Cancer Research Training Award, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 2023 & 2024
Fraser Prize, School of Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2022
Saltire Scholarship, Scottish Government, 2020
Additional Campus Affiliations
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Highlighted Publications
Keskus, A.G., Bryant, A., Ahmad, T. et al. Severus detects somatic structural variation and complex rearrangements in cancer genomes using long-read sequencing. Nature Biotechnology (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02618-8