Experienced consultant for building biolabs — especially crossover spaces between design, art, and science — with a focus on living systems, biomaterials, and sustainability-oriented projects.
Shem built the Grow Lab at Central Saint Martins from the ground up and ran it as lab manager. He's also consulted for the Royal College of Arts Material Science Research Center. Building on the success of these spaces, Shem helps other institutions develop cross-collaborative labs to push research and design into novel directions — having supported hundreds of master's students in Biodesign, Material Futures, and Art & Science along the way.
Six+ years in a high-energy lab environment working with a vast list of organisms, bioprocesses, and biomaterials — well-poised to consult companies, startups, and the highly curious on their ideas.
Bacterial cellulose · bacterial pigments · 3D-printed biomaterials · bioplastics · nanocellulose · biomineralized substrates · mycelium materials.