Sean graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a BSc in Biological Sciences and Psychology. His research interests lie in the intersections between biology and psychology, especially how the gut-microbiome-brain axis affects behaviour, mental health and neurodegeneration. His winning thesis focused on using the larval zebrafish as a model to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie the interplay between diet, gut microbiome, inflammatory responses and sleep.

He is currently a medical student at Duke-NUS Medical School, and hopes to translate basic science to achieve tangible clinical outcomes for patients.