After completing the four year MPhys course at Oxford and achieving a First, I stayed on to carry out research for my DPhil, initially in the field of Terahertz Spectroscopy. After 18 months I changed direction and started a new DPhil in Biological Physics, submitting my thesis entitled ‘DNA Origami Assembly’ a little under three years later. In 2014, I went to York to take up an appointment as a Research Associate in the Department of Electronic Engineering, working primarily on synthetic DNA nanomachines in the context of bioelectronic computing.

I joined the School of Engineering at Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 2017 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2022. I am affiliated with the discipline of Mechanical Engineering and I am a member of the Institute for Bioengineering, where I carry out research in the area of Synthetic Biology.

I was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021 by the Women's Engineering Society. Shortly thereafter, I was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and I took up the role of Degree Programme Manager for Mechanical Engineering in February 2022. In March 2023, I was promoted to the role of Director of Mechanical Engineering, which means I am responsible for leading Mech Eng, providing strategy and line managing the academics (around 50 people).