IHR Strengthening Project Laboratory capacity bulding lead for Ethiopia and Pakistan. Lead on WGS, Virology, Molecular biology and Biosafety Cabinet field certification training programmes. Supervisor of UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Porton Down high-throughput COVID-19 diagnostic labs (2020-21). International Training lead at UKHSA, Porton Down, with a proven track record of design, delivery and implementation of high quality accredited laboratory training programmes in Virology, Biosafety, Biosecurity, Molecular Biology, WGS and high containment microbiology throughout the UK, Europe, Central Asia, West & East Africa and South America.Key Expert for EU CBRN Centres of Excellence projects 53, 81 and 99.Professor in Virology at the University of Plymouth, with a strong and comprehensive research background in virology assay development, virus genomics, emerging arbovirus surveillance and field virology. WHO technical consultant (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021). IFBA technical consultant (Risk Assessment, 2021). Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Associate Professor at the USFQ in Ecuador, where I deliver an intensive summer semester Virology Masters course and run a small Dengue research laboratory, investigating Dengue serotype prevalence in Ecuador and the microbiomes of Amazon basin bat species. Current research includes "Characterisation of the Human Virome in Febrile Ebola Negative Patients". Please see publication list for recent publications and upcoming manuscripts in press.Team lead of the European Mobile Labs in Guinea (Gueckedou - Aug 2014 & Coyah - Mar 2015) and the PHE Mobile Lab in Sierra Leone (Kenema, Dec 2015), I was responsible for managing a team of scientists in testing samples from Ebola Treatment Centre patients and community dead for EBOV.NSF Acredited BSCII field certifier. PRINCE2 certified