Ayuen graduated from the University of Southampton in 2000 with a BSc in Biochemistry before joining the Public Health Laboratory Service in 2001 as a Healthcare Scientist in the Food, Water and Environmental (FWE) Laboratory at Southampton General Hospital. Ayuen completed an MSc in Public Health Science (Food and Drinking Water) with the University of Hertfordshire in 2009 whilst working at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) FWE laboratory in Colindale, London. Between 2011 and 2016 she worked for Public Health England (formerly HPA) as a Standards Microbiologist producing UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations (UK SMIs) a collection of documents for use in clinical microbiology diagnostic laboratories.
Ayuen is a Registered Scientist and member of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, the Microbiology Society and the Society of Applied Microbiology where she is a member of the magazine editorial team. Her interests span method development/standardisation and quality assurance, with a focus on scientific communication and public engagement.
Since 2016 Ayuen has worked as the Scientific Marketing Manager for PHE’s Culture Collections based at Porton Down.