Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has been awarded two prestigious fellowships, an European Commission Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, the U.K. from 2004 to 2006 and a U.K. Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Edinburgh from 2015-2019. He was the Director of the Genomics Program at the Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in Mtubatuba and an Affiliate Senior Lecturer at the Division of Infection and Immunity at the University College London (UCL) from 2009 to 2016.