Brief biography

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I am currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield.

I was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield in 2011 and promoted to senior lecturer in 2018.

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I have been a visiting lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences since 2010 and have taught at the AIMS centers in South Africa, Senegal and Ghana.

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2010-2011
I was a postdoc in the department of mathematics at the University of Bristol working with Tannie Liverpool.

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November 2010 - January 2011
I was a visiting researcher and lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa, in Cape Town.

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2007-2010
I was a postdoc in the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée in the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) now called the Sorbonne Université.

I worked with Raphaël Voituriez, Jean-François Joanny (Physical approach of biological problems Group Institut Curie) and Matthieu Piel (Systems Cell Biology of Cell polarity and Cell division Group Institut Curie), funded by CNRS. For a few months in 2010 I was based in Matthieu Piel's biology lab in Institut Curie funded by the Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

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2005-2007
I did my first postdoc in AMOLF, Amsterdam, in the Theory of Biomolecular Matter group, working with Bela Mulder.

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2002-2005
My PhD was with Tom CB McLeish in the Polymers And Complex Fluids group (the IRC in Polymer Science and Technology) in the Physics department of the University of Leeds.

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1998-2002
I completed my first degree (MPhys) in physics at University of Oxford.