I am a junior group leader in the Department of Genetics, where I lead the Embryo Patterning group. I originally moved to Cambridge in 2012, and spent several years in the Department of Zoology, first as a PhD student in the lab of Michael Akam, and later as a Junior Research Fellow. After a couple of years as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Angela DePace at Harvard Medical School, I returned to Cambridge and joined the Department of Genetics. I have a PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge, a MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford. I set up my group in 2023, supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award.