Personal Statement
I am a data scientist based at the Computational Biology Facility, and working closely with clinicians at Alder Hey Children's Hospital as part of the LifeArc Kidney Research UK project, which aims to improve our understanding of rare kidney diseases in children.

I'm an evolutionary ecologist by training, with a particular interest in linking envirinmental variation to phenotypic plasticity in different populations. After gaining my PhD from the University of Liverpool, I carried out postdoctoral research in Brittany, Liverpool and Barcelona, studying how different invertebrate populations and species respond to environmental stress, using omic data (genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, proteomic) to explore the cases of phenotypic variation. I have also worked as a bioinformatician at the NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF), providing support and training to postgraduates learning bioinformatics. In my current role I am able to combining this broad computational, analytical, and statisitcial experience and apply it to the analysis of clinical and omic data, investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying rare childhood kidney diseases.