Claire Davison graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry with Forensic Investigation in 2021, receiving First Class Honours. She pursued a PhD at the University of Surrey under the supervision of Dr Mónica Felipe-Sotelo, Professor Melanie Bailey, and Dr Dany Beste. Her doctoral research bridged analytical chemistry and microbiology, with a particular focus on developing advanced elemental methodologies for biological sample analysis. These included single particle - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS), laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Her work provided novel insights into the metal-host interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in single macrophages and also contributed to emerging techniques for tracing radiopharmaceutical uptake in cancer models at the cellular and subcellular level.

Since 2025, she has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the SEISMIC Facility for Single and Sub-Cellular Omics at King’s College London, working under the facility's director, Professor Melanie Bailey. Her current research spans a range of interdisciplinary projects that integrate high-resolution single-cell and subcellular sampling with downstream omics workflows - including proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics - to explore cellular heterogeneity and molecular mechanisms in health and disease.