Experience

The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Sep 2022 - Present

• • Sep 2019 - Sep 2022



Haydn Thompson Consulting

• Scientific Consultant

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Providing scientific consultations for business, experimental design appraisal and concept evaluation. Follow-up services provided include product or service testing, data collection, troubleshooting, data analysis and presentation for business planning and practice validation. Providing scientific consultations for business, experimental design appraisal and concept evaluation. Follow-up services provided include product or service testing, data collection, troubleshooting, data analysis and presentation for business planning and practice validation.



Anoxart Ltd.

• Scientific Consultant

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Testing argon delivery systems for anoxic storage of artwork and tapestries. System parameter optimisation for increasing cost efficiency. Data collection and analysis. Testing argon delivery systems for anoxic storage of artwork and tapestries. System parameter optimisation for increasing cost efficiency. Data collection and analysis.



KEW GARDENS

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Laboratory Research Assistant

  • Dec 2018 - May 2019

  Assisting in the completion of the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life (PAFTOL) mission to discover and disseminate the evolutionary history of all plant and fungal genera. Evolutionary trees are powerful tools for science and society that can potentially affect the livelihoods of billions of people though development of new materials, biofuels, drugs and crops. My duties include extracting DNA from living and herbarium preserved plant biomass and processing these using the NEBNext® Ultra™ II DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina® high-throughput sequencing technologies. Library preparation includes using AMPure XP beads for clean up and size selection of target sequences. Show less


Education
• Online Audio and Video Media
• Biology Tutor

  • Nov 2016 - Nov 2018


Heriot-Watt University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Nov 2012 - Nov 2017

• • Nov 2012 - Nov 2016