Graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007 receiving a BSc (Hons) in Forensic Chemistry.

After graduating He had a short spell at Glaxo Smith Kline before starting as a Bioanalytical scientist at ICON development solutions where He used HPLC and LC-MS/MS to analyse small molecules from a range of different samples. After spending 9 months at ICON He then moved back home to work at Sellafield Ltd in the analytical department analysing environmental and product samples using primarily ICP-OES and XRF.

Joined the Gardner group in November 2010 as an PhD student looking at stem cell differentiation when introduced to some natural and synthetic retinoids using infrared-micro spectroscopy.