Profile

My CV

• Education:

  I went to school in a small West Coast town Greymouth New Zealand, then polytechnic to become a qualififed chef then university BSc, MSc and PhD at the Univeristy of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. I began doing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in sociology but found neuroscience and psychology too interesting so I transferred my major.

• Qualifications:

  I did not finish high school and instead trained to become a chef and baker. Throughout university my grades were not spectactular and I failed some papers. But I gained post graduate qualifications in Neuroscience.
  Soft qualities like people skills, team cooperation and ingenuity have probably been what have actually got me to where I am today, but qualifications are required as well.

• Work History:

  I worked as a baker and chef and enjoyed having free time while others were working. However the conditions (pay and work hours-at night when friends were being social) made me want more in life coupled with my gf breaking up with me (just the push I needed) sent me to university.
  I have worked on models of many neurological conditions, from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease to epilepsy in New Zealand, Germany and now Oxford in the UK.

• Current Job:

  I currently work at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brain Networks Dynamics Unit in the Medical Research Council.