Hailing from the jewel in England's crown that is Stoke-on-Trent, I received a bachelor's degree from Queen Mary University London in Molecular Biology and a PhD from Imperial College London in Plant Science. I'm currently an Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor within the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at University College Dublin (UCD).

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My lab uses multiomic approaches to reveal cross-kingdom interactions between diverse organisms, including: plants species, fungi, arthropods, human (GIT, skin, vagina, breast milk, diverse cancer environments), mouse, and bacteria (biofilm formation, intra/extracellular biotrophic, pathogenic). In addition to more controlled environments, the lab explores metaomic complexity in the real world, such as aquatic (sea water and municipal wastewater), soil (organic and inorganic anthropogenic contamination), urban, built and space (ISS) environments. 

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I have been fortunate to collaborate with colleagues at UCD as well as the University of Montreal and McGill University in Canada. Prof Frédéric Pitre developes phytoremediation straegies using fast growing, high tolerance crops to help decontaminate polluted soils across Quebec and with Dr Emmanuel Gonzalez, Bioinformatics Specialist at McGill's C3G, developes new approaches focused on breaking down the barriers between biology and bioinformatics.