Native English speaker, raised and educated in both the UK and Canada
Degree in Modern European Languages
Lived and worked in Portugal from August 1999 to June 2005 (part-time translator and proofreader for the Coimbra Centre of Vision Sciences and the Biomedical Institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal from 1999 to 2004: medical/pharmacological/device study protocols, case report and informed consent forms, clinical trial documentation, publications for scientific journals)