I am a Research Associate in Analytical Chemistry for Cultural Heritage, working between the School of Chemistry and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. Here I act as Operations Manager for the Commercial Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) enterprise, and as Manager for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) RICHeS Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Science (C3HS).

I obtained my MChem in Chemistry at the University of Sussex, before undertaking an MA in Conservation of Wall Paintings at The Courtauld Institute of Art. After working as a conservator and Lecturer I undertook a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD between the scientific department at the National Gallery and the Organic Geochemistry Unit (OGU) at the University of Bristol. The project, completed in 2025, centred on the development of complementary analytical methods to investigate the source of plant- and animal-derived materials in archaeological ceramics and aged paint samples, with a view to reduce sample sizes and increase applications for compound-specific isotope analysis.

Previously, I worked as an Organic Analyst at the National Gallery (2022-2023), and as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Scientific Research at the Art Institute of Chicago (2025-2026). In this role, I characterised understudied organic art materials in Central and South America, with a particular focus on the paint binder on Paracas ceramics from the Middle and Late Periods.