I completed my MChem and PhD degrees at the University of Durham, the latter supervised by Prof. David Parker FRS. During my PhD, I studied chiral emissive lanthanide complexes for security labelling and imaging, and was awarded the Ken Wade PhD Thesis Prize in 2018.
I then moved to Oxford as a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Prof. Harry Anderson FRS. Following this, I held the Junior Research Fellowship in Chemistry at Christ Church from 2019 to 2024, where I continued to be hosted in Prof. Anderson’s lab. My recent research has focused on the development and synthesis of photoswitchable emissive molecules, and their application in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. My work has combined organic synthesis with spectroscopy to study photochemistry and photophysics, as well as the development of new microscopy techniques.
During these roles, I have been involved in the training of undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers across a range of disciplines, in particular with laboratory work. In line with these interests, I took up the role of Departmental Lecturer in Practical Chemistry in September 2024.
