I completed my undergraduate studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, where I undertook an Honours project in Nathalie Dehorter’s lab at the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience in 2018. I then continued in the Dehorter Lab for my PhD, which I completed in 2023. Following this, I stayed on as a postdoctoral researcher when the lab relocated to the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. During my PhD and first postdoctoral position, I was particularly interested in how neuronal connections are formed and refined during development, and how neuromodulatory systems influence these processes in both typical and disrupted conditions. I have experience in a range of experimental techniques including electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry and imaging, as well as behavioural assays.
In 2025, I joined the Rico Lab to begin a new project exploring how human cortical circuits are formed, with the aim of translating insights from animal models into an understanding of human brain development.