I hold the Chair of Theoretical Systems Biology, and work on a range of topics in Theoretical Systems Biology, Evolutionary Theory and Statistical Bioinformatics. I originally studied theoretical physics in Tübingen, Göttingen and Oxford. I completed my DPhil in Statistical Physics in Oxford in 1999 and moved straight into Biology. I spent three years as a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow in Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology in Oxford. In 2002 I took up a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship and moved to the Department of Biology at UCL in London. Since October 2003 I am in the Cent re for Bioinformatics at Imperial College London.

From October 2004 until December 2007 I was an Embo Young Investigator. Between March 2006 and February 2009 I was on the BBSRC Engineering and Biological Systems Research Committee. Since October 2008 I am on the BBSRC Training and Awards Committee. In October 2009 I was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

I am course director of the MSc in Bioinformatics at Imperial College London and am involved with the 3rd year undergraduate option in Systems Biology.