She graduated from the University of Melbourne (BA/ BSc(Hons), Ph.D. (2004)), carrying out her PhD research with Stephen Best. She then moved to the University of Oxford as an RJP Williams Junior Research Fellow with Fraser Armstrong from 2002-2007, and then a Royal Society University Research Fellow, before taking up her current position in 2013. Her research couples electrochemistry with infrared spectroscopy to understand small molecule activation by enzymes and metal nanoparticles. She has developed applications of biocatalysis for chemical synthesis, winning the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technologies prize.