I joined the University of Strathclyde in June 2023 as a Senior Teaching Fellow. 

Prior to joining Strathclyde, I taught at Heriot-Watt University, which I joined in September 2016 as an Assistant Professor in Chemical & Process Engineering. In 2018, I was appointed Senior Programme Director of Studies, serving two terms in that role, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. I held a range of roles and responsibilities covering academic leadership, professional body engagement, curriculum development and teaching. 

Since 2020 I have been a Visiting Scholar in the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. I am currently the External Examiner for undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield (from 2023), and the External Examiner for taught courses in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Brunel University London (from 2024). I previously served as External Examiner for taught courses in the Department of Chemical & Process Engineering at the University of Strathclyde from 2021 to 2023.

Before moving to academia, I worked in the upstream oil and gas industry for 15 years – latterly with Chevron in Aberdeen, Houston and Luanda; Oil Search in Sydney; and starting my career with Helix RDS in Aberdeen. My career covered a broad range of petroleum engineering, production technology, asset management, project management and capital stewardship roles.

I graduated with MEng Chemical Engineering with Energy Resource Engineering from Heriot-Watt University in 1999, and MSc Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College in 2000.

I became a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Petroleum Engineer through the Energy Institute in 2005. I am a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers in Scotland; a Member of the Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining; a Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and an Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

My core teaching comprises modules delivered in Year 2 (CP212 Process Safety Fundamentals) and in Year 5 and MSc (CP527 Petroleum Engineering, and CP530 Safety Management Practices). I also support the delivery of the equivalent modules on our distance learning courses. I am also a supervisor for Year 5 and MSc individual projects.

For teaching leadership, I am the Industrial Advisory Board Co-ordinator and work closely with the Marketing and Outreach team to develop industrial links for our courses.

Reflecting my industrial background, my teaching philosophy focusses on the inclusion and contextualisation of industrially-relevant experiences and outcomes in both taught and project-based modules.