I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in theoretical physics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Durham University, and a member of the Biophysical Sciences Institute. My main area of research deals with (quantum) field theory, gravity and string theory, but I am also interested in applications of mathematics to biology, and in computer algebra.

Until recently, I was an NWO VIDI fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Before that, I was at the Albert-Einstein-Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, at DAMTP in Cambridge, UK and at NIKHEF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.