Professional activities

Awards and prizes

2022 Weldon Memorial Prize.

• Awarded to the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational sub-group (SPI-M-O) for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The Weldon Memorial Prizes recognises noteworthy contributions to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology.
• The award recognises the epidemiological modelling conducted by SPI-M-O that supported the UK’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022 SPI-M-O Award for Modelling and Data Support.

• Recognition of those who made an exceptional contribution, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the work of SPI-M-O outside of their usual work activity.

2022 RAMP (Rapid Assistance for Modelling the Pandemic) Outreach Innovation Award.

• Lead applicant, with Laura Guzman-Rincon as co-applicant.
• Awarded to form the SBIDER Podcast Hub.
• Produce two podcast series: (i) SBIDER presents - sharing research findings from SBIDER with the public; (ii) SBIDER Careers Podcast - a career-orientated series to give insights into the day-to-day activities of researchers working in mathematical epidemiology and infectious disease modelling.

2022 RAMP Continuity funding: Early Career Researcher Knowledge Exchange Project Award (1000 GBP).

• Facilitation and organisation of a virtual workshop event on Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods
• Hosted by the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

2021 RAMP Early Career Investigator Award from the Royal Society.

• Recognition of early career researchers who have made exceptional contributions towards RAMP’s activities.

2021 RAMP Continuity funding: Early Career Researcher Knowledge Exchange Project Award (2500 GBP).

• Facilitation and organisation of a virtual workshop series on Modelling Behaviour to Inform Policy for Pandemics
• Hosted by the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

2018 Awarded a bursary (300 GBP) from the University of Warwick Public Engagement Fund.

• Co-applicant as part of the DataBeers Warwick organising team.
• Support the running of a DataBeers Warwick event.

2018 Recipient of an ESMTB travel grant (300 euros).

• Support attendance at ECMTB 2018: 11th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.

2012 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

• Full funding for MSc and PhD studies.

Teaching

I have performed the following duties at the University of Liverpool:

2025 Delivered interactive lectures for two MSc level modules: DASC505 Actionable Healthcare Data Analytics and IVES724 Understanding models and data.

I have performed the following duties at the University of Warwick:

2023-2024 Sole lecturer for MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology & Epidemiology.

2022-2024 Module co-organiser for MA4K8 MA4K9 Projects.

2017-2021 Lecturer/workshop assistant for Mathematical Modelling, delivered to postgraduate students in the Midland Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) doctoral training programme.

2015-2016 Teaching Assistant for MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology and Epidemiology.

2011-2014 Supervisor for 1st year undergraduate Mathematics students.

Professional and academic affiliations

2025 - present: Deputy member of the Liverpool City Council Health Protection Board (as a representive of the Civic Health Innovation Labs from the University of Liverpool). The Health Protection Board is responsible for oversight of health protection arrangements in Liverpool and to provide assurance to the Health and Wellbeing Board that there are safe, effective, integrated arrangements and plans in place across the whole system to protect the health of the population and to promote reduction in inequalities in health protection
2025 - present: Standing member of the University of Liverpool Institute of Population Health Communication, Outreach, Engagement & Involvement Committee (ICOEIC). Representative as Departmental Lead for Communication and Engagement for the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems.
2025 - present: Liverpool Centre for Mathematics in Healthcare: Management Group member.
2025 - present: Steering Group member for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infection (HPRU-EZI).
2024 - present: The Pandemic Institute Internal Scientific Advisory Panel member (University of Liverpool representative).
2024 - present: Management Board member for the JUNIPER partnership.
2024: Management Board member for the UK Pandemic Sciences Network.
2020 - 2022: Participant of SPI-M-O.
2018 - 2024: Member of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB).
2016 - present: Member of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB).

Editor and reviewer roles

Oct 2024 - present: Academic Editor for the Epidemiology & Public Health section of PLOS Computational Biology.

2024-2025: Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Behavioural Epidemiology in the journal Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences.

Feb 2021 - Oct 2024: Editorial Board member for the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

2022: Guest Editor of a Pandemics Special Issue of Mathematics Today, the magazine of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The Special Issue was published in October 2022, with the Editorial available to view online here.

For an overview of my reviewing history, please visit my Peer Review record on Web of Science and ORCID.

Grant application assessment roles

2025 - Member of the UKRI College of Experts to assess proposals submitted to the funding call ‘Interdisciplinary research proposals to tackle epidemic threats’.

Conference session chair

SMB 2021 - Mathematical Epidemiology CT09
SMB 2020 - Mathematical Epidemiology COVID-19 Contributed Talks III
CCS 2019 - Diseases & Epidemics 1
SMB 2018 - Epidemiology: Part A