Permanent positions
2011-: Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK
2006-2011: Reader of Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK
Departmental responsibilities at Durham University
2017-: Head of Astronomy
2017-: Director of the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy
2015-2018: Director of post-graduate studies in Physics
2011-: Lecturer for the Stars component of the "Stars and Galaxies" 2nd year MPhys/BSc course
2015-2017: Deputy director of the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy
2010-2015: Post-graduate staff administrator for Astronomy
2006-2015: Lecturer for the AGN component of the "AGN and Black Holes" post-graduate course
2006-2010: Director of the post-graduate course in Astronomy
Fellowship positions
2012-2014: Leverhulme Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK
2006-2010: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK
2003-2006: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
Post-doctoral positions
2000-2003: Chandra X-ray surveys post-doctoral researcher, Penn State University, State College, USA
1998-2000: ELAIS infrared surveys post-doctoral researcher, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Education
1995-1998: PhD in Modelling and Spectropolarimetry of AGN, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK (awarded in 1999)
1992-1995: BSc in Astronomy (top first), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK
Prizes: Awards, Fellowships, Lectures, and Visits:
Stephen S Murray Distinguished Lecturer at CfA-Harvard in 2016
Clarivates or Thomson Reuter highly cited researcher in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Kingsley Visitor at Caltech in 2014
Lecturer at the USTC Summer School in China in 2013
Master Class Lecturer at Amsterdam (FIRSED2013) in 2013
Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2012-2014
Durham exceptional contribution awards 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
Philip Leverhulme Fellowship Prize 2007-2009
Royal Society Fellowship 2003-2010