Professional Activities

Speaking Engagements

Community Involvement

I served as the Programming & Events Chair and Book Club Co-Chair for the EFA/Editors Canada Academic Editing Chapter from its launch in September 2022 until the end of 2024.

We put on a variety of events each year including monthly coffee chats, five–six book discussions or author Q&As, and several large events with invited speakers. A full list of past events can be found on the Academic Editing Chapter's EFA webpage.

Continuous Education

• Effective Science Editing: Lessons from Fiction and Academia, Webinar, EFA

• Indexing*, Webinar, Academic Editing Chapter (EFA/EC)

• Indexing: Theory and Application, Course, University of California–Berkeley

• Editing Science Fiction and Fantasy, Webinar, Professional Editors Network

• Proofreading Graphic Novels, Webinar, ACES: The Society for Editing

• Technical Editing for Craft Patterns, Webinar, Editors Canada

• From Academia to Academic Editing, Panel, Academic Editing Chapter (EFA/EC)

• Communicating Science through Comedy*, Webinar, Academic Editing Chapter (EFA/EC)

• Working with ESL/EFL/Multilingual Authors*, Webinar, Academic Editing Chapter (EFA/EC)

• Developmental Editing for Academics, Webinar, Manuscript Works

* Denotes an event I organised, as well as attended.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Genetics and Molecular Medicine

  • • University of Edinburgh, UK

• Erasmus Mundus Masters in Forensic Science

  • • University of Lincoln, UK

    • ISCSEM, Portugal

    • Universidad de Córdoba, Spain

• BS in Forensic and Investigative Sciences

  • • Texas A&M University, USA

• BA in Psychology

  • • Texas A&M University, USA