I am currently looking at the problems being solved in the intersection between Glycomics and Bioinformatics, often called Glycoinformatics in pursuit of a PhD. My work is based at the DKFZ, within the Central spectroscopy department (Molecular modelling) headed by Willi von der Lieth. Funding for my PhD is provided by the EUROCarbDB consortium, which has been established for the development of a design for a distributed carbohydrate database.

I have previously worked on various proteomics related bioinformatics projects at my previous employer, Proteome Systems, as well as being leading both the development and bioinformatic research for the GlycoSuite informatic tools.

My interests within glycoinformatics lie with mass spectrometry, automated analysis and interpretation of spectra, establishment of data interchange standards, as well as data visualisation and user interface design.

• 1998-2002
  University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
  Bachelor of Engineering (Computing) / Master of Biomedical Engineering Double degree with the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. Masters and Undergraduate thesis on Distributed Computation for Simulation of the Mamallian Sinoatrial Node.
  Supervisors Lovell, NH and Cloherty, SL
• 2005-2008
  German Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg, Germany
  PhD Student
• 2009 Q1
  University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
  Postdoctoral researcher Short postdoctoral locum, working on the visualisation of large sets of oligosaccharide data
• 2009 Q2
  EMBL-EBI Hinxton, UK
  Postdoctoral researcher Short postdoctoral locum, working on the EuroCarbDB project
• 2009Q3 –
  Joint BioEnergy Institute Emeryville, California
  Postdoctoral research Postdoctoral position in systems biology examining Arabidopsis proteomics