I studied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, where I developed an interest in real and abstract analysis, fractal geometry and chaos and dynamical systems. Returning to Northern Ireland in 2015, I undertook a PhD in the artificial intelligence research group at Ulster University studying mathematical models of evolutionary food web development. This concerned developing population models and programming numerical simulations in Fortran 90.
In 2018, I joined Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer in engineering mathematics, delivering applied mathematical techniques to engineering students while continuing research on ecological models with spatial and evolutionary elements, and applying similar techniques to epidemiological contexts. I also publish pedagogical discussions of undergraduate population modelling projects.
In September 2022 I joined the ±¬ÁϳԹÏÍø as a Lecturer in Mathematics.