Before completing his PhD, Mark qualified with an MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering (Aston University) and worked for 3 years as a Design Engineer in the telecommunications industry. He completed his PhD at Aston University, developing machine learning methods to discriminate between different walking patterns. He subsequently went on to complete two post-doctoral Research Fellow positions in the Sensory Motor Neuroscience (SyMoN) lab at the University of Birmingham, modelling the timing of human movement. He gained the post of Assistant Professor and subsequently, Associate Professor at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick in 2015, establishing his current research interests combining digital health and human movement analysis. He took up his current post in the School of Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences in 2024.