September 2025:
Lecturer in Biology, The Open University
September 2020:
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading
PI: Professor Chris Venditti
September 2017-August 2020:
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Reading
2017-September 2017:
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading
2013-2017:
PhD, University of Reading.
Thesis title: "The varying rate of phenotypic evolution and natural selection".
Awarded January 31st 2017.
2011-2012:
MSc by Research, University of Hull.
Thesis title: "The role of life histories in the success of mammalian invasions".
2008-2011:
Undergraduate degree at the University of Hull
Degree title: BSc in Biology with Molecular Biosciences
December 2019: The British Ecological Society (BES) in Belfast, UK.
August 2019: The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Annual Meeting in Turku, Finland.
Symposium orgnised (jointly with Stephen Montgomery and Francesco Cicconardi): "Gene-phenotype associations across evolutionary scales". Invited speakers Dr Nicola Nadeau (University of Sheffield) and Professor Itay Mayrose (Tel Aviv University).
July 2019: Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting (SMBE) in Manchester, UK.
August 2018: Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Evolution 2018) in Montpellier, France
Poster presented: "Monandry drives testes size reductions among birds, but not other vertebrates."
June 2018: BES Macro in St Andrew's, UK
Talk presented: "Monandry drives evolutionary decreases in testes sizes among birds, but not other vertebrates."
December 2017: Young Systematists' Forum at the Natural History Museum, London, UK.
August 2015: Systematics Association Biennial
September 2015: Symposium for Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) in Southhampton, UK
Talk presented: "Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies"
November 2014: Radiation and Extinction: Investigating Clade Dynamics in Deep Time at the Linnean Society, London, UK
Workshop taught: The Variable Rates model in BayesTraits
September 2014: Symposium for Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) in York, UK
Talk presented: "Bridging the divide between studies of extant and extinct diversity"
November 2013: Young Systematists' Forum at the Natural History Museum, London, UK
Talk presented: "Detecting Cope's rule in extant mammals."
July 2012: First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Evolution 2012) in Ottawa, Canada
Talk presented: "Invasive Mammals and Productivity"
March 2012: North of England Young Evolutionary Scientists Symposium in Liverpool, UK
Talk presented: "Metabolic scaling as an epiphenomenon of group-specific processes"
December 2019: Early Careers Day Workshop at the BES annual symposium in Belfast, UK.
November 14-16 2017: Exploring Biological Sequences at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK.
October 2017: Ensembl browser course at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK.
November 2014: Workshops in phylogenetic methods at the meeting "Radiation and Extinction: Investigating Clade Dynamics in Deep Time" at Linnean Society, London, UK
May 14-18, 2012: Italian workshop on phylogenetic methods and applications in Modena, Italy.
PLoS ONE, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Scientific Reports, Paleontology, Evolution, Animal Conservation, Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology.
2021 Supervision of two student UROP (undergraduate research opportunity programme) placements.
2019-2020 Supervision of undergraduate student projects. Taught third year undergraduates about rates of evolution.
2018-2019 Supervision of undergraduate student project looking at the extinction and evolution of pterosaurs.
2016-2018 Supervision of undergraduate student projects as a part of the Reading Evolutionary Biology group.
July 2015 Workshop Instructor: MedPlant (a Marie Curie Initial Training Network) three day training workshop.
November 2014 - Workshop taught: The Variable Rates model in BayesTraits at the meeting "Radiation and Extinction: Investigating Clade Dynamics in Deep Time" at the Linnean Society, London
2011 - 2012 Demonstrating at the University of Hull for undergraduates:
* Statistics for biologists
* Molecular biology and DNA fingerprinting
* Evolutionary biology and understanding phylogenies
2012 - 2016 Demonstrating at the University of Reading for undergraduates:
* Animal Behaviour
* Python and PERL for bioinformatics
* Evolutionary Biology and understanding phylogenies