CV

Education:

2006-Present

Florida State University

Postdoctoral Chemistry Research Scholar

2002-2006

University of Sussex

PhD Chemistry (Supervisors – Prof Sir Harold Kroto, Dr David Walton and Prof Dek Woolfson)

1998 – 2002

University of Sussex

1 st Class Chemistry MChem (Hons)

1996 – 1998

St. Angela's & St. Bonaventure's Sixth Form Centre

A-level: Biology, Chemistry and Maths

1991 – 1996

St. Bonaventure's RC School

10 GCSE's (including English, Maths, Double Science, French, R.E, Art, Music, Geography Design and Technology)

2nd Prize in the Royal Microscope Society's Talk. - 2005

Royal Society of Chemistry Downland's Prize for the best undergraduate final year project.

Red Cross First Aid –Save a Life

Newham Academy of Music Training Orchestra Cup

Poster Presentations:

World Convention Centre Summit (Japan)

Nanoscale Order

International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (Austria)

Self-Assembly in Protein Fibres: Developments for Bio-Nanotechnology

University of Sussex (England)

Nanoscale Order & Assembly of a Protein Fibre

PPARC KITE Club Imaging for Life Sciences, 24 June 2003 (England)

Astronomical Techniques Applied to Nano-Scale Images

Oral Presentations:

Florida State University - USA

Self-Assembly of a Designed Protein Fibre

Toyo University - Japan

Nanoscale Assembly

University of Sussex - UK

Poking the Nano-World with Nano-Fibres

University of Sussex - UK

Protein Fibres and Carbon Nanotubes: Developments for Bio-Nanotechnology

University of Warwick - UK

Protein Fibres