Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology, University of Aberdeen, UK (2011-date) Visiting Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA (2012–2015). Funded by Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. Department of Molecular Immunoregulation, Cancer & Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA. Education editor for Gut (2012-date), an international journal of gastroenterology & hepatology. Monthly podcast interview and editing ‘journal scan: GI highlights from the literature’. Secretary of the Aberdeen Immunology group, a regional group of the British Society of Immunology (2016-date)

Mucosal immunology and epithelial barrier dysfunction in inflammatory bowel disease Anti-inflammatory cytokine networks as treatment strategy for inflammatory bowel disease The role of chronic inflammation in the pathogenesis of sporadic colorectal cancer Novel biomarkers to aid diagnosis, assessment of disease severity and response to treatment in inflammatory bowel disease and gastrointestinal cancers