I am a PhD candidate in the Palaeoenvironments Group at the Research School of Earth Sciences,The Australian National University. I received a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) and Master of Research (Palaeobiology) from Macquarie University, where I also worked as a research assistant and tutor for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and as the administrator for the Macquarie University Marine Research Centre.

I have participated in three Southern Ocean seafloor coring voyages as a member of the science party on the Australian vessel R/V Investigator, and the French ship R/V Marion Dufresne II.

My PhD research focuses on using radiolarians to reconstruct Quaternary Southern Ocean palaeoclimate parameters in the Sabrina Coast region of East Antarctica.