My CV
2022 – present Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Projects:
- Modelling the spread of antibiotic resistance variation by age with an MRC Career Development Award
- Modelling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in hospital environments
- Collaboration with Nichola Naylor and Eve Emes on a One Health AMR project within SEFASI
- Involved in modelling with multiple sub-projects on MACOTRA, including work with Valerie Baede and Wilem van Wamel at Erasmus, MC
- SHINY app development for empiric prescribing with Zambian collaborators
- Supervision of Naomi Fuller’s PhD on resistance mutations in M.tb
- Supervision of Jake Wildfire’s PhD on determinants of generalised transduction in S. aureus
- Supervision of Alastair Clements’ PhD on the interaction between phage, antibiotics and generalised transduction in S. aureus
Community:
- Co-organiser of the Distance Learning Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases module
- Co-organiser of the AMR Centre Short Course at LSHTM
- Co-Director of the AMR Centre
2021 – 2022 Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Projects:
- Modelling the spread of antibiotic resistance with an MRC Skills Development Fellowship
- Modelling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in hospital environments
- Collaboration with Nichola Naylor and Eve Emes on a One Health AMR project with Jo Lines and Jeff Waage
- Involved in modelling with multiple sub-projects on MACOTRA, including work with Valerie Baede and Wilem van Wamel at Erasmus, MC
- Supervision of Quentin Leclerc’s PhD on phage dynamics and S. aureus
- Supervision of Naomi Fuller’s PhD on resistance mutations in M.tb
- Supervision of Jake Wildfire’s PhD on determinants of generalised transduction in S. aureus
Community:
- Co-organiser of the Distance Learning Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases module
- Deputy Director of the AMR Centre
Member of the TB Centre and CMMID
2017 – 2020 Assistant Professor, LSHTM
Projects:
- Modelling the spread of antibiotic resistance with an MRC Skills Development Fellowship
- Collaboration with Nichola Naylor on a One Health AMR project with Jo Lines and Jeff Waage
- Involved in modelling with multiple sub-projects on MACOTRA, including work with Anneke de Vos, Valerie Baede and Wilhem van Wamel at Erasmus, MC
- Continuing collaboration to model carbapenem resistance at ICL with Andrea Weisse and Alison Holmes
- Supervision of Quentin Leclerc’s PhD
Community:
- Co-organiser of the Distance Learning Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases module
- Evolutionary Dynamics Theme leader for the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID)
- Co-organiser of the CMMID book club and associated blog
Member of the AMR Centre, TB Centre and CMMID
2017 – present Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London
2015 – 2017 Career Development Fellow (Lecturer level), Imperial College London
Projects:
- Modelling to quantify the sources and transmission pathways of antimicrobial resistance,
- Investigating screening tools for carbapenem resistance using an individual-based hospital model
- Modelling to determine fitness costs associated with resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb)
- Supervision of two PhD students, a Research Assistant and 2 interns
Career break for maternity leave July 2016 – April 2017
2012 – 2015 Research Fellow, LSHTM
Projects:
- Modelling to evaluate the impact of potential new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines
- Model development for the inclusion of diversity in fitness costs of resistant strains of M.tb
- Modelling of the impact of treatment shortening for TB
- Modelling to explore the feasibility of South African targets for TB control
- Supervision of one PhD student and masters student projects, teaching & co-organiser of introductory modelling courses
2008 – 2012 Ph.D., University College London (UCL) and St George’s University of London
Thesis title: An experimental, epidemiological and mathematical investigation of fitness within clinical Staphylococcus aureus populations
Supervisors: Jodi Lindsay and the late, great Rob Seymour.
2007 – 2008 M.Res. in Modelling Biological Complexity, UCL
Department: CoMPLEX (Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology)
Summer project title: Investigating the selective advantages of colon cancer associated mutations within the gene adenomatosis polyposis coli (APC)
Grade: Distinction, Year prize
2006 – 2007 M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling, UCL
Department: Mathematics
Summer project title: Differential equation modelling of age-dependent fish populations within coral reefs
Grade: Distinction
2003 – 2006 B. A. in Mathematics, University of Oxford
Grade: 2:1