Dr Tourigny is a Birmingham Fellow (Assistant Professor equivalent) within the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. Prior to joining Birmingham, he was a Research Scientist at the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, where he also held a Research Fellowship from the Simons Foundation. Before that, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge where he also completed his PhD under the supervision of Venki Ramakrishnan and Garib Murshudov at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a member of Trinity College.