Michael is a BRIA Fellow at Sloan Kettering Institute, studying the activation and regulation of inflammasomes which are the intracellular sensors of the innate immune system. In the lab of Daniel Bachovchin, he discovered the mechanistic basis for the interaction of NLRP1 with thioredoxin.

Prior to Sloan Kettering, Michael was a EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Gonçalo Bernardes at the University of Cambridge. He developed new methods for site-selective modification of proteins and to probe RNA modifications.

Michael completed his PhD in chemistry under the supervision of Kit Cummins, where he discovered ways to make phosphorus-containing compounds. Prior to that, he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, performing research in the lab of Jose Goicoechea.