个人简介

I graduated in 1992 with a 2i in Chemistry from Bristol University. After a year spent working for Glaxo Group research, I returned to Bristol to undertake a PhD entitled Synthesis and reactions of tetrahydroquinolizinium and dihydroindolizinium compounds. In 1997 I moved to the University of Brighton as a Wellcome funded research fellow, developing catalytic antibodies for the hydrolysis of cocaine. After four years postdoctoral research I was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, then promoted to Principal Lecturer in 2006. During this period I led the development of several new courses in the Chemistry area, culminating in our highly popular, RSC-accredited BSc(Hons) and MChem Chemistry programmes. I was seconded part time to act as Faculty Quality Director from 2009, and then appointed as an Assistant Head of School and Head of Chemistry in 2014. During this period I continued to develop my interest in the Chemistry of ageing, awarded research council funding to undertake analysis of age related chemical changes in Drosophila melanogaster, and more recently a collaborative grant from the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan to develop small molecules, based on the widely publicised compound resveratrol, that intervene in the ageing process. I was an executive member of the British Society for Research on Ageing from 2007-11, and organised the society’s largest ever annual scientific meeting in 2011.I regularly act as an expert evaluator, and vice chair, for EU funding programmes, and am a member of multiple editorial boards. I became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013.