Education
Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, 2010
MA, Renaissance Studies, London, 2006
LL.B. Hons, Law, Hull, 1996

Research Interests
I am a historian of medieval and early modern science and medicine, specializing in alchemy and early chemistry. In my teaching and research, I explore alchemy’s relationship with natural philosophy, medicine, and culture in pre-modern Europe, focusing especially on interconnections between textual authority and artisanal practice. My work at PRISM is aimed at reconstructing historical experiments as a means of investigating past science.