Jonas Koeppel faced a dilemma in high school. Unlike many students, he was fascinated by science and art.
“There’s a way of being a scientist,” he said. “It almost feels like doing art. It’s an expression of asking the right questions and finding creative ways to the answers.”
Thirteen years later, the 30-year old researcher at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub), is asking more questions than ever before and identifying even more answers. His supervisor and mentor, Sudarshan Pinglay, Ph.D. affirmed his colleague’s work – and work ethic.
“Jonas is extremely nimble, especially for doing the kinds of work that we do at SeaHub,” said Pinglay. “It’s a lot of technology development and he’s very good at adapting quickly and trying out small tweaks to a bajillion things. It’s a ‘hacky’ way of approaching science that I absolutely love.”
