I am a Professor of Mathematical Biology and I the have been based at the University of Glasgow since September 2003. I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. I am an associate member of the Institute for Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine and a member of the ‘Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health’. Prior to this I was a PIMS Post Doctoral Fellow under the supervision of Mark Lewis at the University of Alberta (2001-2003). I completed my PhD (1998-2001) in Mathematical Biology at Heriot-Watt University supervised by Jonathan Sherratt .