Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His research spans topics ranging from statistics to social behaviour, and he has worked on outbreak analysis of influenza, Zika and Ebola. This work has been featured by the Guardian, BBC News, Time, The Times, El País, LA Times and the Washington Post, and he has been interviewed by BBC News, Channel 4 News, ITV News and Sky News. In 2013, he was awarded a UK Medical Research Council Career Development Award and in 2017 he received a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.