Profession: Student

Number of times previously entering contest: never

Favorite design and analysis tools: - Eagle PCB (Free version)
- Microchip's MPLab
- Wireshark

Hobbies and activities: Playing with Linux kernel source code and welding

Online communities: DIYbio, HackerNews, Reddit, Engineering.com

Inspired by: The way Elon Musk talks about colonizing Mars within the next few generations makes me want to contribute significantly to the field of Synthetic Biology as well as showing others how important it is, as I firmly believe that customized enzymes and organisms will enable efficient-enough production to make space travel and inhabitation of celestial bodies feasible.