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Researcher in the Technical Design and Development team.- Implementing technical components of corporate biodiversity programmes.- Working with clients to create sustainable supply chains and business operations.- Innovating new approaches and methods for corporate biodiversity footprinting.- Interpreting and analysing a wide range of environmental data..

Researcher in ancient DNA, using computational bioinformatic tools to assess DNA damage in museum specimens.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Entitled 'Temporal patterns of DNA degradation: assessing an ancient human DNAdataset.' for which I received a Distinction (90%).
• For the duration of the project I was a part of Professor Ian Barnes lab at the Natural History Museum London and gained experience working in a research lab.
• The project culminated in a full scientific report, presentation and viva voce with external examiners.
• Throughout this bioinformatics-based project, I quickly and independently gained computational skills including working in a command-line shell environment (Bash), working on remote servers, implementing new software.

• Entitled “Investigation and characterisation of endogenous viral elements within mammal genomes” for which I received a 2:1.
• Identified 17 novel sequences in mammalian genomes with significant homology to non-retroviral viral sequences.
• Homology was determined through the use of BLASTn and tBLASTn.
• Also attempted to increase the efficiency of identifying endogenous viral elements through the construction of a general ‘optimized’ probe.

Silwood Park

• Internship under the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme.
• I worked in Dr Martin Brazeau’s lab, helping to develop new software for constructing phylogenomic trees. My main duty was analysing contradictions with outputs from older software (MrBayes, PAUP*) in RStudio.
• Experience using Materialise Mimics software to create and analyse 3D models of encased fossils.

Master Of Science - Ms, Taxonomy, Biodiversity And Evolution, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Imperial College Surf Society • Awarded the MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity Prize for achieving the highest.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Design for Sustainable Development, invited to enter my teams design for a solar water distiller into the.

A-Levels A* A A

A Levels: Mathematics (A*), Biology (A), Chemistry (A) and AS-level English Literature (A)