- Elected Academia Europaea Member 2016
- Elected EMBO Member since 2013
- ERC Advanced Investigator since 2013
- Head of Genome Biology Unit (EMBL) since 2009
- Senior Scientist (EMBL) since 2009
- Group leader at EMBL since September 2002
- Post-doctoral research at Stanford University (1997-2002)
- Ph.D., University College Dublin (1996)
