Academic Appointments

Honorary Professsor, UCL (Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering) 2009-present Professor of Biochemistry, University of Essex 1999-present Wellcome University Award Lecturer - University of Essex 1995 - 1999 MRC Research Fellowship - University College London 1992 - 1995 King's College Research Fellow - King's College London, England 1990-1992 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Brock University, Ontario, Canada 1989

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (2015) Innovator of the Year BBSRC (short list) 2015 Best New Medtech Programme OBN (short list) 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, FRSB (2014) EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship (2008) MRC Discipline Hopping Award (2003) Times/Oxford University Press Science Writing Competition - 2nd place (2002) Melvin H. Knisely International Award for outstanding achievements in research on oxygen transport on oxygen transport to tissue (1997)

biophysics biochemistry oxygen transport and metabolism biomedical optics drugs in sport near infrared spectroscopy bioenergetics

My research interests involve biochemical and biophysical studies on metalloproteins, focusing on the major respiratory proteins that react with oxygen (myoglobin, haemoglobin and cytochrome oxidase). I am particularly involved in research at disciplinary interfaces and the consequent translation of scientific findings from the cell to the human body. My collaborators therefore include chemists, medical physicists, psychologists, sports scientists and clinicians.