I obtained a BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics (2003) and a PhD in Statistics (2007) at the University of Exeter. In 2006 I joined the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium at the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate in Statistics, before becoming a Senior Research Associate in the Disease Dynamics Unit at the Department of Veterinary Medicine. In 2014 I became a Lecturer in Mathematical Biology in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Exeter, before joining the University of Exeter Medical School in 2019, where I am now an Associate Professor in Bayesian Statistics.