1985-1989 Scholarship at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford. B.A. (Hons.) 1st class in Biochemistry, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford. Dissertation in Fission yeast cell cycle control with Professor Paul Nurse. 1989-1993 Research project carried out in the ICRF Molecular Oncology Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. D. Phil. Thesis: Phosphorylation of the human topoisomerase II protein, supervised by Dr. Ian Hickson and Professor Adrian Harris. 1993-1995 Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), Lausanne, Switzerland. 1995-1998 Maitre Assistant at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. 1999-2005 Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester 2000-2005 Lister Institute Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester 2005-2008 Reader, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester 2008 Appointed to Personal Chair, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester 2010-present, Deputy Head of Department of Biochemistry 2012-2014, Head of Core Biotechnology Services 2014 - present, College Director of Research

The Molecular Control of Cell Division Fluorescent Microscope Imaging Facility