I teach on the Sciences strand of the Foundation Year. I completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh, where I worked on the parasite which causes African Sleeping Sickness. This involved a mix of 'wet-lab' work and bioinformatics – using computer programming to analyse DNA. I did my undergraduate in Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, where I worked part-time in food safety and STI testing laboratories.
I speak a little Spanish and play the flute (neither very well!) and love to travel. So far, my favourite adventures include seeing a 'pocket monkey' in the wild, swimming with bioluminescent plankton and hitchhiking from Sheffield to Romania!
