She obtained her B.E. (Elec. Eng., 2002) and PhD (Microelectronics, 2008) at University College Cork and the Tyndall National Institute, Ireland. From 2007 to 2009 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Atwater Group at California Institute of Technology and in 2010 she completed an EC Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship in the Ebbesen Group at the University of Strasbourg and CNRS. Research interests include: Photonic nanostructures, plasmonics, conjugated polymer nanostructur,e s and organic pbotonic devices.