I have a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria/ University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and have held postdoctoral fellowships at UMIST (now The University of Manchester, Manchester) as well as the University of Leeds, Leeds. I am currently working at the Dove Marine Laboratory, Newcastle University where I am researching (with Prof. Grant Burgess) on the use of a nuclease enzyme called NucB to disperse biofilms.