Profile

I’m from Australia and moved to the UK to do a PhD in maths (I’m now a doctor!). During my PhD, aside from my research I was also involved in a number of projects where we wrote biographies and recorded videos to show people how cool and diverse we could be – check them out here https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/pce/ediresources/ and here https://www.qmul.ac.uk/maths/our-community/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/a-mathematician-like-me/.

I have had a lot of hobbies which change when I get bored. For example, I used to be really into roller skating, knitting and crochet, and playing Legend of Zelda on my Switch. During my PhD I also learned how to speak German and now want to learn Spanish and other languages!

I do something called “topological data analysis”. The “topological” means that I use abstract shapes to represent “data” points and then use mathematical tools to measure and “analyse” these shapes and say something about the data.

In my PhD, I used extremely weird and abstract mathematical structures to work out whether “holes” in shapes like crystals were real or not. In my current work, I take pictures of medical data, and find different tools to describe how different cells are behaving, interacting and changing.