1985 BSc (Hon's) Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London 1989 PhD Organic Chemistry, University College of Swansea 1989-1995 Post doctoral assistant, followed by 1995-1999 Departmental assistant at The Dyson Perrins Laboratroy, University of Oxford with Professor Sir Jack E. Baldwin FRS 1999 Lecturer at Loughborough Univeristy 2004 Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University

Palladium Catalyzed Reactions of Vinylcycloproanes Stoicheiometic Organometallic Routes to Heterocyclic systems (With Dr S. D. R. Christie) Radical and Palladium Routes to Heteroaromatic and Aromatic motifs (With Professor W. R. Bowman) Approaches to mono-cyclic b-lactam PSA Inhibitors Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Novel Nucleophilic Acylation