I completed my PhD, titled Pattern Formation in Nanostructured Systems, in September 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Moriarty in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, where I remained as an independent Research Fellow for five years, sequentially holding EPSRC PhD Plus, Leverhulme Trust Early Career, and Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowships, and gaining promotion to Senior Research Fellow in 2013. My research revolved around utilizing experimental and computational techniques towards the advancement of scanning probe microscopy of, and the self-assembly processes in, a wide range of nanomaterials.

In 2014 I took a break from academia to pursue my passion for equality in education, and commenced secondary school teacher training in the pilot cohort of the Researchers in Schools programme, placing postdoctoral researchers into schools with low social mobility and poor university participation rates. As such, I become a Teacher of Science at Barnhill Community High School in West London.

Last Updated: March 2016