My pronouns are he/him
My research in the Department of Biology bridges quantitative genetics and evolutionary biology to understand adaptive and functionally consequential genomic variation. Before joining the Kelly Lab at the University of Oxford, I worked in the Foulkes Lab at the University of Nottingham, where I developed and maintained hyperspectral imaging pipelines for single-grain analysis in wheat and barley. I also contributed to projects investigating allelic variation underlying nitrogen-use efficiency and source–sink dynamics in wheat, combining computational genomics, high-throughput phenotyping, and crop physiology.
During my PhD, undertaken across the University of Nottingham and the University of Adelaide, with a placement as a Visiting Researcher at the John Innes Centre, I studied the A. E. Watkins wheat landrace collection—a globally diverse set of 826 landraces collected from 32 countries in the 1920s and 1930s. My work characterised grain-to-grain variation in protein content and identified novel haplotypes associated with grain protein content and grain weight. I also collaborated with Rothamsted Research and industry partners Campden BRI and DSV UK Ltd. In the Kelly Lab, I am building on this interdisciplinary background—from crop physiology and breeding to computational genomics, high-throughput phenotyping, and glasshouse and field experimentation—to investigate genomic variation and its relationship with phenotypic fitness in crops.
