Professional experience

2021–current: Insectary Manager, The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, United Kingdom

2019–2021: Research Scientist, The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, United Kingdom

Education and training

2023-current: Level 3 Apprenticeship: Team Leader/Supervisor (ST0384), Skillwise Training Ltd, Surrey, United Kingdom
2017–2019: Master of Science (Evolution, Ecology and Systematics), Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; Thesis: Investigating Wolbachia diversity in a rapidly diverged host species complex using RNAseq.
2015: Bachelor of Science, Honours (Zoology) research programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Thesis: Producing sterile male Anopheles farauti mosquitoes through the use of RNA interference.
2014: Undergraduate exchange programme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2011–2014: Bachelor of Science (Zoology) and Bachelor of Arts (Peace and Conflict Analysis), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Reitmayer, C. M., Levitt, E., Basu, S., Atkinson, B., Fragkoudis R., Merits A., Lumley, S., Larner, W., Diaz, A. V., Rooney, S., Thomas, C. J. E., et al. 2023.: "Mimicking superinfection exclusion disrupts alphavirus infection and transmission in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti." PNAS 120 (37):e2303080120.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.23030801
Hugo, Leon E., Rašić, G., Maynard, A. J., Ambrose, L., Liddington, C., Thomas, C. J. E, et al. 2022.: “Wolbachia wAlbB Inhibit Dengue and Zika Infection in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti with an Australian Background.” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16(10):e0010786.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010786
Pereira, R. J., Ruiz‐Ruano, F. J., Thomas, C. J. E., Pérez‐Ruiz, M., Jiménez Bartolomé, M., Liu S., Torre, J., and Bella, J. L., 2021.: “Mind the numt: Finding Informative Mitochondrial Markers in a Giant Grasshopper Genome.” Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59 (3): 635–45.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12446
Leftwich, Philip T., Spurgin, L. G., Harvey-Samuel, T., Thomas, C. J. E., Carabajal Paladino, L., Edgington, M.P., and Alphey, L. 2021.: “Genetic Pest Management and the Background Genetics of Release Strains.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376 (1818): 20190805.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0805

2020–current: STEM Ambassador Programme, The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, United Kingdom.