My background is in mathematical modelling and simulation. After completing my undergraduate Masters in Natural Sciences (Maths with Chemistry) at the University of Durham (UK), I did my Ph.D. at the University of York (UK) on developing size-based models of marine ecosystems. The work was a combination of mathematical methods and simulation-based studies.
Following this I spent just over five years at the University of Warwick (UK) as a postodoctoral research associate, applying mathematicss to the spread of infectious diseases (epidemiology), to predict how different infections transmit, and testing the effectiveness of different control strategies. I worked on a project studying infections in honeybees for two years, before working with the UK Department of Health on studying the effects of varying national vaccination strategies for infections such as whooping cough and HPV (human papillomavirus).
I moved from the UK and started work at NIWA Wellington, in the Fisheries Modelling team (now Population Modelling), in April 2017.
