Dr Anya Lindström Battle is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Plant Biology Institute, specialising in plant metabolism and metabolic engineering. Her research explores how plant metabolic pathways can be re‑engineered or optimised using advanced concepts such as biomolecular condensates and enzyme localisation to increase pathway efficiency and product yield. She combines experimental plant biology with quantitative analytical chemistry to understand and control metabolic fluxes in living systems.

Anya has specialist expertise in metabolomics (particularly gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, GC‑MS), metabolic network modelling, and molecular methods for plant metabolic engineering. She holds an M.Res. from Imperial College London and completed her D.Phil. in plant metabolism in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Lee Sweetlove. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Kathy Willis at the University of Oxford, developing specialist GC‑MS approaches for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in ambient air.

Outside work, Anya enjoys exercising, travelling, and snuggling with her rescue greyhound, Lenny.

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