I was born in London, educated at Cork, Dublin, Louvain, and Oxford. I obtained my DPhil at the University of Oxford in December 2008 for the thesis ‘Aristotle on the Matter of the Elements’. Supervisors: Professor Michael Frede and Dr Ben Morison. Examiners: Mr Edward Hussey (All Souls College, Oxford) and Professor Malcolm Schofield (St. John’s College, Cambridge). I was awarded the University of Oxford’s Conington Prize in 2010 for best dissertation in Ancient Philosophy.