Bio
Biography
I am a postdoctoral researcher, specialising in computational pangenomic analysis. I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2018 with an MSci in Biochemistry, before working for Illumina UK, where I developed reagents for high-throughput sequencing platforms. I then completed an MSc in Biomedical sciences at Imperial College London, staying to pursue a PhD in bacterial genomics, during which I developed tools for analysing pangenomes of bacterial pathogens. I graduated from my PhD in 2023 and joined the Lees group at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) as a postdoctoral fellow, where I developed likelihood-free and deep-learning approaches for epidemiological analysis of bacterial species. I joined the Croll group in 2026, where my research is focused on development of rapid pangenome-based tools to identify diversifying regions in fungal genomes, which are drivers of adaptation to a pathogenic lifestyle.
Career timeline
- 2026 – present — Postdoctoral Researcher, Croll group, University of Neuchâtel
- 2023 – 2026 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Pathogen Informatics and Modelling (Lees group), EMBL-EBI
- 2020 – 2023 — PhD in Bacterial Genomics, Imperial College London
- 2019 – 2020 — MSc in Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College London
- 2018 - 2019 — Consumables Development, Illumina UK
- 2016 - 2017 — Research Placement, Earlham Institute
- 2014 – 2018 — MSci in Biochemistry, University of Birmingham