Emma obtained her B. S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. F. Dean Toste. Upon graduation, she joined the Small Molecule Process team at Genentech, South San Francisco for a year before returning to academia for her PhD. Emma received her PhD in 2021 under the tutelage of Prof. Hans Renta where she developed chemoenzymatic routes towards complex non-ribosomal peptide and terpenoid natural products. Inspired by the concurrent revolution in machine learning and AI, Emma began as Newton International Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Matthew Gaunt and Dr Alpha Lee where she investigated practical machine learning model development for chemical applications. In August 2024, she joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh as a Chancellor’s Fellow.

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​When not working, Emma enjoys singing choral music, playing video games with her younger sister, and critiquing architecture with her father. Her life goal is to become a cat mom.