Formal Qualifications
Academic Degrees
2020 – 2024
PhD Biology
University of York, UK
Supervisors: Dr Benjamin Lichman (Biology) & Dr William Unsworth (Chemistry)
Plant secondary metabolism, enzyme discovery, molecular biology, natural products, heterologous expression in E. coli and in planta, metabolomics, transcriptomics, chemical synthesis, isotope labelling, NMR, LC–MS.
Thesis: The biosynthesis of Securinega alkaloids.
2016 – 2017
MSc Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and Business Management
University of Warwick, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Frigerio
Dissertation: Why are leaves green and not black? How can we increase photosynthetic efficiency?
2013 – 2016
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
University of Warwick, UK
First-year supervisor: Prof. Jim Beynon · Final-year supervisor: Prof. Miriam Gifford
Final-year dissertation: Genes affected by Hyaloperonospora arabidopsis in Arabidopsis thaliana.