Short Biography

Academic Career

December 2010  - present

• Lecturer
• Department of Physics
• University of Bath

2006 - 2010

• Research Officer
• Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory (NPRL)
• University of Birmingham

2005-2006

• Post Doc
• Polanyi lab
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Toronto

2004-2005

• Royal Society Research Fellow (international outgoing)
• Polanyi lab
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Toronto

2000 - 2004

• PhD Student
• Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory (NPRL)
• University of Birmingham

1994 - 1999

• 1st First Class Masters of Chemical Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Edinburgh
• Winner of the Normal Lucas Prize for Chemical Physics 1998/1999

1988 - 1994

• Kirkwall Grammar School
  • Exam results
  • Merit awards Thursday, July 1st, 1993

  

  • Reports
    • Year 6
    • Year 5
    • Year 4
    • Year 3
    • Year 2
    • Year 1

1982  - 1988

• Papdale Primary School
  • Reports
  • Violin grade 1
    

Background

I grew up in Kirkwall, Orkney just off the top of the North of Scotland. You really should go there on holiday.