PhD: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, 1992. Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, 1992 - 1996. Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 1996 - 2006 Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation and RCUK Academic Fellow in the Departments of Biochemistry and Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, 2006. Reader in Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, and Biochemistry, 2009 -

Characterising the interactions between components that trigger complement activation Establishing the molecular basis of immunodeficiencies caused by mutations in key complement proteins Understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms that prevent complement from destroying host cells.