I graduated from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) with a double degree in biomedical engineering/electrical and computer systems engineering in 2016. After working in industry, I returned to study to complete a PhD. 

I undertook my PhD at the University of Melbourne and the Bionics Institute where I investigated how augmenting cochlear implants with light (i.e., optogenetic stimulation) might improve the hearing experience of users. I recorded the responses of the hearing nerve cells (spiral ganglion neurons) of mice to different light and electrical stimuli, different disease states, and different mechanisms to tease apart which variables result in the most robust, reliable, and temporally precise responses. 

After completing my graduate research in 2024, I moved to the University of Bristol where I now work in the Pickering lab to understand the behaviour of sensory nerve cells of pain (nociceptors) and how their behaviour might change in different disease models in rats.