She received her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) from Cambridge in 2010, prior to holding a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of HPS. Her work focuses on the history of medieval and early modern science and medicine, particularly alchemy. She is currently completing two books: The Making of English Alchemy, which traces the relationship between English alchemical ideas and practices from 1300–1700, and The Hidden Stone, which decodes a spectacular group of emblematic manuscripts, the so-called “Ripley Scrolls.” Her work on the Conversions project will contribute towards a new study of English alchemical imagery. She is the Editor of Ambix, the main specialist journal in the history of alchemy and chemistry.