She obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2012, where she studied the fundamental properties of cool stars, and hunted for exoplanets. She spent her first postdoc at Leiden University in the Netherlands characterizing exoplanet atmospheres, before becoming a NASA Sagan Fellow at Harvard University. She moved to the Anton Pannekoek Institute in summer 2017 to begin her professorship, where she and her group are working towards the detection of biosignatures on other worlds with the upcoming extremely large telescopes.