Akkapol comes from Bangkok, Thailand. He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Chulalongkorn University, receiving the best Bachelor thesis and the Hitachi Tophy 2014 awards. His research supervisor was Dr. Monpichar Srisa-Art who received her Ph.D. from deMello group at Imperial College London in 2010. He received his Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from same department, having also spent a five month period in the Furutani group at the Institute of Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan, and was the recipient of the best Master Research Award from his department. Therafter, he also recieved Ratchdapiseksompotch as the best Master Thesis Award from Chulalongkorn University. Akkapol joined the deMello group in 2016, and is the recipient of a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. He has experience in developing electrochemical detectors for droplet-based and paper-based microfluidic systems, electrochemical biosensors for single cell analysis, and spectroelectrochemical analysis.