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Biography

Biography

I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) before going on to complete a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. I then moved to the University of Würzburg in Germany to work with Professor Lanzer. In 1998, I returned to the UK to the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, where I worked with Professor Newbold on the Malaria Genome Project and the antigenic switching and cytoadhesive properties of PfEMP1. Between 2003 and 2005 I was located at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine before moving to the Institute for Science and Technology at Keele University on a Royal Society Relocation Fellowship.

In 2006 I was appointed a Lecturer in the School of Medicine and in 2009 I received a BBSRC New Investigator Award and was promoted to Senior Lecturer. In early 2015 I was promoted to Professor in Molecular Parasitology. I have held a variety of Research and Teaching & Learning roles within Keele University, including Senate (2010–2013). I am currently the Strategic Lead for Postgraduate Research Programmes and work extensively with Student Support in the area of serious discipline cases.

I have been an ordinary member of council for the British Society of Parasitology (2009–2012, 2014–16) and was the Society’s Honorary General Secretary (2016–2019), and am on the editorial board for Case Reports in Infectious Disease and ISRN Tropical Medicine as well as serving previously on the editorial boards for Malaria Research and Treatment and Parasitology.

School of Life Sciences,
Huxley Building,
Keele University,
Staffordshire,
ST5 5BG
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734414