After playing football full time at Sheffield Wednesday Luke went to America on scholarship. He did a year in the north of Georgia at Young Harris college before transferring over to West Texas A&M. He graduated in May 2019 with summa cum laude honours in Chemistry. He obtained his Dphil student from the University of Oxford in 2025. His project in the Benesch Group was using HDX to look at the structural dynamics and kinetics of certain proteins to gain a greater understanding of how they interact with each other and other substrates.