Timeline

The highlights first, then every role, qualification, grant and award.

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UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme fellow

UK Health Security Agency, since 2026

2024 –

PPIE consultant

Evelina London Children’s Hospital

2023 –

DPhil in Biology

University of Oxford

2021 – 2025

Data scientist in genomic epidemiology

University of Oxford, Department of Biology

2021

MSc Epidemiology, Distinction

Imperial College London

2020

BSc Infectious Diseases, First Class

University of Edinburgh, with the Ritchie Prize for the most distinguished student

6 papers

First or joint first author

Including Science and Nature Communications. See them

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  1. Sep 2026 – present
    Public health Current Highlight

    UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme fellow

    UK Health Security Agency · North West Field Service, Liverpool

    Applied field epidemiology training, covering surveillance, outbreak response and applied projects.

  2. 2026 – present
    PPIE Current

    Co-design lead, Q-CDSS

    NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) FAST · UCL AI4coma lab

    Leading stakeholder co-design for a hybrid classical–quantum decision-support tool to predict critical events such as cardiac arrest in intensive care patients. Funded by NIHR i4i FAST in 2026, with Applied Quantum Computing and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

  3. 2026 – present
    Leadership Current

    MCR Sports Representative

    Jesus College, Oxford

  4. 2025
    Leadership

    MCR President

    Jesus College, Oxford

    Served three terms leading the college's graduate common room, and co-chaired the Conference of Common Rooms. Before that I was the MCR's Social Secretary (2023–2025).

  5. Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
    Teaching

    Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology

    St Catherine's College, Oxford

    Undergraduate tutorials in infectious disease epidemiology and evolution. I designed the teaching materials, set essays and marked assessments.

  6. Jan 2025 – 2026
    Teaching

    Undergraduate tutor

    Jesus College, Oxford

    Small-group tutorials in epidemiology and molecular biology.

  7. Jan 2025 – 2026
    Teaching

    Module co-lead

    Department of Biology, University of Oxford

    Co-developed the computational epidemiology practicals, written in R, for second-year MBiol students.

  8. Aug 2024 – present
    PPIE Current Highlight

    Consultant in patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE)

    Evelina London Children's Hospital · King's College London

    Evaluating patient and public involvement in the Neurology department through surveys of clinical staff, and recommending how to build patient perspectives into research strategy and reporting.

  9. Oct 2023 – present
    Research Current Highlight

    DPhil in Biology

    University of Oxford · Department of Biology and Pandemic Sciences Institute

    Thesis on integrating multiple data sources and quantitative tools to understand pathogen dynamics, with chapters on dengue and chikungunya transmission and on the GRAPEVNE pipeline environment. Supervised by Moritz Kraemer and Katrina Lythgoe. Funded by the Oxford-Natural Motion Graduate Scholarship with Jesus College.

  10. 2022
    Teaching

    Genomic epidemiology workshops

    OUCRU, Ho Chi Minh City · Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida

    Invited lectures on virus evolution and genomic dataset construction, statistical inference that accounts for phylogenetic structure, and Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAST.

  11. Jan 2022 – 2026
    Teaching

    Demonstrator

    Department of Biology (formerly Zoology), University of Oxford

    Undergraduate practicals in phylogenetics, epidemiology and evolutionary biology, including help with coding in R.

  12. Sep 2021 – Aug 2022
    Education

    PGCert in Philosophy

    University of Cambridge

  13. Aug 2021 – 2025
    Research Highlight

    Data scientist in genomic epidemiology

    Department of Biology (formerly Zoology), University of Oxford

    Genomic epidemiology of COVID-19 variants and control measures, scalable phylodynamic pipelines, dengue resurgence in Vietnam, and biases in COVID-19 surveillance data with the Global.health consortium.

  14. 2021 – present
    PPIE Current

    Public contributor

    NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections

    Helping the unit improve how it involves patients and the public in its research.

  15. Oct 2020 – Oct 2021
    Education Highlight

    MSc Epidemiology, Distinction

    Imperial College London · School of Public Health

    Dissertation on genomic sampling strategies for estimating SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological parameters, supervised by Nuno Faria and Kris Parag and later published in Nature Communications. Gold Prize at the European stage of the EIT Innovation in Health challenge.

  16. May – Nov 2020
    Research

    Research assistant

    Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

    Phylogenetic analysis of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland.

  17. 2020 – 2023
    PPIE

    Young adult representative

    James Lind Alliance · Childhood Neurological Conditions Priority Setting Partnership

    On the steering group of the partnership that identified the UK's top ten research priorities for childhood neurological conditions, and in the team that analysed the survey data. Published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology in 2024.

  18. 2018 – present
    PPIE Current

    Support, information and research volunteer

    Encephalitis International

    Peer support, public engagement and patient-facing resources, including the charity's information page on CLIPPERS.

  19. Sep 2017 – Jul 2020
    Education Highlight

    BSc (Hons) Infectious Diseases, First Class

    University of Edinburgh

    Ritchie Prize for the most distinguished student in the year. My dissertation, on the spread and evolution of zoonotic RNA viruses from China, received the highest mark in the cohort.

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Grants and awards

  1. 2026

    Bowers Fund grants (two awards)

    £300 eachGrant

  2. 2025

    Bowers Fund grant

    £300Grant

  3. 2025

    Jesus College Graduate Scholarship

    Jesus College, OxfordScholarship

  4. 2023

    Prize for best speaker

    EScamps conference, University of CambridgePrizeHighlight

  5. 2023

    Oxford-Natural Motion Graduate Scholarship

    University of Oxford, in partnership with Jesus CollegeScholarshipHighlight

  6. 2023

    Graduate Choral Scholarship

    St Peter's College, OxfordScholarship

  7. 2020–21

    Gold Prize, EIT Innovation in Health challenge

    European Institute of Innovation and TechnologyPrizeHighlight

    Winner at the local and European stages.

  8. 2020–21

    Runner-up, Imperial Healthcare Hackathon

    Imperial College LondonPrize

  9. 2020

    Ritchie Prize

    University of EdinburghPrizeHighlight

    For the most distinguished student in the year, with the highest overall mark.

  10. 2020

    Highest dissertation mark

    BSc Infectious Diseases, University of EdinburghPrize

  11. 2019

    Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship

    Medical Research ScotlandScholarship

    Funded a summer research project on host–pathogen interactions.

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