I am a librarian at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, with a particular focus on library systems and digital libraries. I was previously the Reader Services Librarian at Queens' College, Cambridge, where I developed and maintained the college's modern (post-1800) library collections and delivered information and research skills support to the academic community.

My professional interests include:
• digital humanities (using Python as my primary programming language);
• knowledge organisation, specifically classification and indexing;
• research/academic library data services, such as research data management, version control and data visualisation support.
My current professional project is developing RDF-encoded classifications and taxonomies for use in academic and special collections.

I have a MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German, with a bit of Polish and Ukrainian) and an MSc in Information Science from Northumbria University. I also have experience working with special collections—cataloguing around 1,100 early printed books during my librarian traineeship—and archives.