Steven studied Chemistry at Imperial College London, completing his MSci degree in 2004 and his PhD, under the supervision of Prof Nick Long, in 2008.
He has since worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and the University of Bath, in collaboration with the Clinical Imaging Centre at Hammersmith Hospital. In 2011 he was awarded an Excellence Fellowship at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, based at the Imanova Centre for Imaging Sciences. Steve joined the Aigbirhio group in September 2015 to work on the development of HER2 radiotracers as biomarkers for breast cancer.
His research interests include novel radiolabelling methodologies and the development and evaluation of PET radiotracers for in vivo imaging of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders and for application in oncology.