I am a research associate working with Kit Yates and Richard mort. My current research focusses on the formation of spotting patterns in dalmatians and mice. Previously, my work has been split between modelling various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and investigating the coevolutionary dynamics of mutualists and parasites in a population of hosts under Ben Ashby and Kayla King. Previously, I completed my PhD with Kit Yates on “Spatially extended hybrid methods in biology”.
Current position
I am currently a research assistant at the University of Bath, working with Prof. Kit Yates (Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath) and Dr. Richard Mort (Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Lancaster). I am part of a Leverhulme grant called "Spot the Difference: The Cellular and Clonal Basis of Dalmatian and Mouse Spots". For more information, please see the following pages:
Previous positions
Research Assistant - University of Oxford (2023-2025)
I worked as an ERC (European Research Council) Postdoctoral researcher in both the King Lab, run by Prof. Kayla King, and the Eco-Evo Theory Group headed by Dr. Ben Ashby. The grant is in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. For more information on any of these, please see the links below:
Research Associate - University of Bath (2021-2023)
Worked with Ben Ashby in the Eco-Evo Theory Group to understand the roles that defensive symbiosis can have on parasite evolution as part of the Eco-evo Theory Group.
Education
PhD - SAMBa CDT, University of Bath (2016-2021)
My PhD thesis was titled "Spatially extended hybrid methods in biology" and was completed under the guidance of Dr. Kit Yates. My work comprised develop hybrid frameworks for reaction-diffusion systems.
- The Yates Group
- SAMBa
- PhD Thesis
MMath (1st Class (Hons)) - University of Bath (2012-2016)