I received a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the Open University in 2005 and an MSc in Astrophysics from University College London in 2007. My PhD is from Cranfield University where I studied infrared guided missiles to develop countermeasure techniques for aircraft. On completion of the PhD I continued the same research as a postdoc then joined the University of Oxford in 2012. From 2013 to 2014 I worked as a Senior Lecturer at University Technology Malaysia. I have now joined the Centre for Machine Vision (January 2015) as a Lecturer in Engineering and I am currently planning several projects in the area of machine vision. One is using a pixel level colour constancy algorithm and a wide dynamic range camera for use in surveillance applications. The aim is to use an illumination invariant feature to improve image segmentation for object classification. I also aim to purchase a hyperspectral camera for use primarily in surveillance but which has many other applications, such as remote sensing of vegetation and medical diagnosis/monitoring.