Dr David Eyre is a Robertson Fellow at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford. He is also an honorary consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. His research interests including the use of bacterial whole-genome sequencing to study the epidemiology and transmission of infection, including with C. difficile and other healthcare associated infections. David also works on applying pathogen sequencing as a rapid culture-independent diagnostic tool and on several projects seeking to use routinely-collected electronic healthcare data to inform the management and control of infection.