She is originally from South Africa where she did her undergrad degree and Masters degrees, before moving to the UK in 2008 as a South African Rhodes Scholar. After four years as a Lyman Spitzer Jr Fellow at Princeton University, she moved to Toronto in 2016. Her work uses data from telescopes around the world to test the predictions of novel cosmological theories,with a focus on dark matter and dark energy. She is interested in astrostatistics and using data science techniques applied to astrophysical problems. She is passionate about science communication and was elected as a 2013 TED Fellow and a Senior Fellow for the years 2014-2015. She was elected as a 2017 CASCA Westar lecturer.