I started my academic career with a Masters in Physics from the University of Manchester. I completed an Astrophysics project studying early star formation after acquiring time to use the SMA radio telescope during an internship at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan.

I then jumped ship and started a PhD in fungal transcriptomics at the University of Edinburgh. I spent my time writing open-source research software and creating Bayesian statistical models to understand post-transcriptional regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

After finishing my PhD, I joined the the UK’s leading centre of Supercomputing and Data Science expertise at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. I helped users run code on a variety of computing resources including the UK’s national supercomputer (ARCHER2), a large >20 node GPU cluster, and trusted research environments such as the NHS Scotland National Safe Haven.

I am now a member of the Quadram Institute’s Core Bioinformatics team and help scientists across the institute conduct world leading research using are state-of-the-art computing infrastructure.