Interests:

My group utilizes mathematical and experimental approaches to understand competition, cooperation and coevolution amongst microorganisms. We are a truly interdisciplinary team where mathematicians, physicists, bioinformaticians, molecular biologists and experimental evolutionary ecologists work alongside each other and share skills. By developing approaches that bring together systems biology into a population level framework we strive to quantify how microbial community composition is determined by the metabolism, genetics and physiology of individual players. This is important for solving fundamental problems in evolutionary biology including the evolution of diversity, virulence and antimicrobial resistance.

1998 – 2002 PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Bath
1994 – 1998 BSc in Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

2015 – present Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2012 – 2015 Associate Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2011 – present NERC Advanced Fellow/ Associate Professor in Systems Biology, Biosciences, University of Exeter
2008 – 2010 NERC Advanced Fellow/ Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
2007 - 2008 NERC Advanced Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Bath
2006 – 2007 NERC EMS Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Bath
2004 – 2006 NERC EMS Fellow, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London
2001 – 2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rothamsted Research