I have a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Bristol and worked for seven years as a full stack web developer at Bristol's Institute for Learning & Research Technology, specialising in producing accessible and usable web applications with open source tools. I also worked for three years as Head of Technology at The Local, a European news organisation, and for 20 years as a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, teaching a part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Web Design and Development. I first joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2004 to work on projects related to the sequencing, assembly, annotation and mutagenesis of the zebrafish genome. In 2025, I joined the Anderson lab as a bioinformatician.
