Personal Statement
I work as a Biochemistry Senior Lecturer in the School of Biosciences and an honorary member of the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Liverpool. I am the Director of Admissions for the School of Biosciences and Programme Director for the Biochemistry degree.

Before Liverpool, from 2010 to 2017, I worked as an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Eastern New Mexico University, USA. Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University, Canada (2008-2010), a Post-Doc at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada (2004-2008), a Ph.D student at Cambridge University, UK (1999-2004), an English and Chemistry Teacher in Jalisco, Mexico (1998-1999), a Research Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (1996-1997) and an Undergraduate student at Leeds University, UK (1994-1998).

I am a protein biochemist and structural biologist and my research lab uses biophysical tools and bioinformatics to probe protein structure, dynamics and interactions to gain a deeper understanding of protein interaction specificity, with an interest in optimising the protein production and characterisation pipeline. I am the lead contact in the institute for Protein characterisation on our Nanotemper Prometheus Panta instrument and our high throughput Tecan Spark Multimodal Plate reader. I am the lead organiser for the Biochemical Society's annual Engineering Recombinant Protein Protein for Structural and Functional Studies training event. I am also interested in pedagogical research to better understand student success in the lab. I am always looking for new undergrads and graduate students to work in my lab.