UCL FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES

I loved my time at UCL and it set me racing off on the path of academic research. In fact both my choice of PhD and post-doc labs was steered by advice and recommendations from UCL staff.

I'd been in the lab for six years before I realized that a lifelong career in research wasn't for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it but I felt like a tiny cog in a pretty big machine. The experience has set me in excellent stead for doing what I really love - telling people in the real world about the exciting world of laboratory research - with genuine enthusiasm and experience.

Current position (since May 2001): Exhibition developer, Contemporary Science Group, Science Museum - researching, writing (and sometimes even building!) a dynamic series of temporary exhibitions, on-line features and live events within the 'Antenna' science news gallery (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna). These communicate the latest developments in science, medicine and technology to a family audience.

Current position (May 2001- present): Exhibition Developer, Contemporary Science Group, Science Museum

1999-2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marie Curie Research Institute, Surrey, U.K.   Working in Peter O'Hare's lab, trying to figure out how herpes virus makes its escape from inside the nucleus of infected cells

1995-1999: Wellcome Prize PhD student, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge, U.K.   Working in Bill College's lab on the catchily titled thesis "Improving the efficiency of liposome-mediated gene therapy for cystic fibrosis"

1992-1995: BSc (Biology), UCL

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