I am a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, where I lead an independent research programme in mass spectrometry-based single-cell proteomics (SCP) applied to human immune cells. My work sits at the intersection of single-cell proteomics, immunology, and computational biology, with a particular focus on rare and technically challenging immune cell populations such as neutrophils and other granulocytes.

I completed my PhD at the University of Dundee (2019–2022) under Prof. Doreen Cantrell and Prof. Angus Lamond, and held a postdoctoral position in Cell Signalling and Immunology at Dundee before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 2024. There, in the group of Prof. Sarah Walmsley, I established single-cell and mini-bulk (low cell number) proteomic workflows for the characterisation of human leukocytes. In March 2026 I was awarded a five-year Wellcome Trust Early Career Award to lead my own research programme aimed at defining neutrophil functional heterogeneity and dysfunction in chronic inflammatory disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

My work spans both the biological application of SCP and its analytical foundations. Recent contributions include single-cell proteomic analysis of neutrophil functional states in human glioblastoma (Nature Communications, 2025), systematic benchmarking of SCP across the Orbitrap Astral and timsTOF SCP instrument platforms (bioRxiv, 2026) , and the development of computational pipelines and quality-control guidelines for single-cell and low-input proteomic data. Alongside this, I created and maintain the Immunological Proteome Resource (ImmPRes), an open-access platform that unifies over 25 distinct MS-based proteomic datasets covering both mouse and human immune cells

My research has been recognised with early-career distinctions at successive UK and European proteomics meetings: Early Career Awards at the BSPR meeting (2022) and the joint EuPA & BSPR meeting (2023), and poster prizes at the BMSS & BSPR meeting (2024) and BSPR meeting (2025). I am an invited plenary speaker at the 2026 BMSS Single Cell Mass Spectrometry SIG meeting (King's College London), and I have presented at the European Symposium on Single Cell Proteomics (2024 & 2025), the principal European conference dedicated to the field.