She is Professor of Virology and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Global Partnerships at Oxford Brookes University.
King was a student at the University of Liverpool graduating with a BSc in Biochemistry and Cell Biology,[1] she studied for her doctorate in molecular virology at the University of Oxford graduating in 1985 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher and junior research fellow at Linacre College.
[2] The following year she moved to Oxford Brookes to work as a lecturer in virology and subsequently rose to professor in 1998.
[3] King's research looks at insect viruses and focusses on baculovirus expression systems[3] and their use in protein production.
In 1992 she wrote a book with Robert Possee, The Baculovirus Expression Vector System: A Laboratory Guide.