In 2014 Dominic graduated with a BSc Hons in Biology from Oxford Brookes University. Following a seven-year career in hospitality management, in 2021 he began an MSc in Clinical & Molecular Microbiology at the University of Nottingham. As part of the MSc program, Dominic was involved in a Hepatitis C Virus pseudotyping project in Professor Jonathan Ball and Professor Alex Tarr’s research group.

Subsequently, Dominic developed technical expertise in cell sorting as a Flow Cytometry Assistant at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. In March 2024, Dominic joined the Altenburg lab as a Research Assistant to investigate MHC-I antigen processing and presentation in viral immune detection and evasion.