I am the Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in The Milner Centre for Evolution, at the University of Bath, UK.

My research interests cover a broad span of evolution, genetics and genomics.  My group dominantly use computational and mathematical techniques to understand the way genes and genomes evolve. 

I am especially interested in understanding whether selection might operate on what have commonly been assumed to be unimportant mutations (e.g. synonymous mutations, small genome re-arrangements) and if so why.  This has relevance for diagnosis of genetic diseases, as well as for gene and genome manipulation.