Indra Roux studied Biotechnology at the National University of Quilmes (Argentina). Following her interest in microbial metabolism and synthetic biology, she obtained a PhD at The University of Western Australia (Australia) in 2021, with a subsequent postdoc. During her PhD she developed synthetic biology tools for natural product discovery in filamentous fungi. In 2022 she joined the MRC Toxicology Unit at Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher in the Patil lab, where she is studying chemical-genetic interactions in the human gut microbiome. During her PhD, she actively participated in the Synthetic Biology Australasia Society, and believes community is key to facilitate interdisciplinary research as engineering biology.