Experience

• The Scripps Research Institute

  Assistant Professor

  Research on how SARS coronavirus proteins work, designing new antivirals, and structural studies on how coronaviruses and arenaviruses are able to leave an infected cell.
  
  

• University of Reading

  Associate Professor and Director of Outreach

  Virology - Emerging virus research
  Teaching - Microbiology, Palaeontology
  Outreach - Promoting science by interacting with TV, radio and print news organizations

• University of Reading

  Lecturer and Director of Internationalisation

  Attracting overseas biology students to UoR through TV, Radio and news work.
  
  I also run a molecular virology lab with 9 current PhD students - we study membrane-changing proteins and have a particular fondness for coronaviruses.

• Texas A&M University - Texarkana

  Associate Professor and Head of Biology

  Head of Biology Department
  Research - Emerging viruses and their replicative organelles
  Teaching - Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Palaeontology
  Media outreach