The brain uses information from the past and present, as well as prognostications, to better determine effective action or inaction. My research aims to understand how the brain's neurons compute information at the subcellular, neuronal and circuit levels.

I would love it if one day I am able to understand how neuronal processes lead to what defines our experience of life: the phenomenas of perception, cognition, and our conscious sense of agency.

I grew up in Perth, receiving undergraduate education at The University of Western Australia in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, where I also began research through an honours program under supervision of Profs Shaun Collins and Sarah Dunlop to look at retinal ganglion cell diversity and properties in the lamprey. I then moved to Brisbane at the University of Queensland to conduct PhD research with Prof. Stephen Williams looking at how pyramidal neurons in the primary visual cortex dendritically integrate and process information. Finishing my PhD, I moved to Cambridge, UK in 2019 to begin post-doctoral research in London at the Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL, but through ill health I left this position soon after. Over the next few years I carried out charity work with the Brilliant Club to teach primary and high school students in science, and as Trustee of UK charity The Biodiversity and Environmental Education Society, worked to provide environmental education for adults in the East of England by developing and leading the UK's first nature guide training program alongside my fellow Trustees. I returned to Australia in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof Williams at UQ, before receiving a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator grant and taking up my position at Monash University in 2024.