Anghel has, as he says, a mathematician inside him. Since he was young, growing up in Romania, he has always gained pleasure from problem-solving. “I was always causing mischief as a kid,” he adds, with a glint in his eye, “and so, I suppose I got used to coming up with solutions.” Born in 1986, the son of a diplomat, his family moved to Lisbon in 2001, where Anghel studied economics at the University of Lisbon. Like the equations he was good at solving, Anghel now works with materials through an analogous process of hands-on logic, determined not to skew the solution to fit a preconceived outcome.