I graduated from Newcastle University with a BSc (Hons) in Surveying and Mapping Science in 2003. Following my undergraduate degree in Surveying, after a short 3-month summer position with Ray Beels Associates as a Junior Land Surveyor, I started my PhD in Space Geodesy under the guidance of Prof Philip Moore also at Newcastle University. My PhD developed a novel technique for utilizing Earth Rotation Parameters for calculating low degree spherical harmonics of the Earth’s Gravity Field.

Following my PhD studies, I took up a position as a Research Associate in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University of Nottingham on an EPSRC funded project “Mapping the Underworld“ investigating means of positioning buried pipes and cables. Over the next few years, I worked on 2 other EPSRC funded projects about position and navigation at the NGI.

In 2010, I was appointed as a Lecturer in Engineering Surveying in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham, and I was still a member of the NGI. In 2013 I took up a position at the China campus of the University of Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in Surveying. In 2016 I was appointed Acting Head of Civil Engineering and in 2017 I was promoted to Associate Professor and Appointed Head of Civil Engineering and founded the Geospatial Research Group of which I was also appointed Head. In 2020, I decided it was time to return to the UK and was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Surveying at Loughborough University. At Loughborough, I am a member of the Geotechnics and Geomatics Research Group.

External activities

• Member of the CICES Regional Board 2008 - 2013
• Vice Chair Commission 6 of the FIG – 2010 - 2015
• Member of the BIM Working Group FIG 2018 – 2019
• Member editorial Board for “Survey Review”