I studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh, and did my PhD on the Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme. I was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford, and then a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Glasgow.

My research lies at the intersection of probability, statistics and computation, applied to problems in genetics. I am interested in what we can learn about evolution by analysing sequenced genomes: for instance, through reconstructing the shared genetic history of a sample of individuals, we can gain insights into past demography, understand how genetic variation arises and how it is shaped by natural selection to produce the patterns we observe in the data.