1995-1999
MSci in Chemistry at University College London
1999-2000
MRes in Molecular Functions in Disease at the University of Glasgow
2000-2003
PhD in the Monckton laboratory at the University of Glasgow – “Modelling the Toxic RNA Hypothesis of Myotonic Dystrophy in Drosophila Melanogaster”
2004-2006
Post-doc in the Tollervey laboratory at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, studying RNA degradation in budding yeast.
2006-2008
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in the Tollervey laboratory at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, “Substrate recognition by the TRAMP complexes”
2008-2009
Post-doc in the Tollervey laboratory at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, studying rDNA recombination and non-coding RNA biology.
2009-2014
Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow at the Babraham Institute
2014-2016
Group leader at the Babraham Institute
2016-present
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Babraham Institute