2015 - Present: Eastern ARC Research Fellow

2007 - 2015: Senior Research Officer, University of Essex

2003 -2006: PhD, Molecular Microbiology, University of Essex

1999 - 2003: BSc (Hons), Marine & Freshwater Biology, University of Essex

My research interests are in the field of environmental molecular microbiology:

Synthetic Biology

Pollution microbiology, e.g. Microbial biodegradation of crude oil and hydrocarbons

Carbon & nitrogen cycling in marine and estuarine environments

Algal and bacterial physiology