Profile

I am a Brownie leader but generally love getting involved and volunteering. It is great to be a STEM role model for the girls. With this, I have gone on camps with the Guides, and also completed my Queen’s Guide Award in 2024, the highest award you can achieve in Girlguiding. I additionally love being active and will always try and attend parkrun every week (whether I am running or volunteering). With this, I have run multiple half-marathons and also ran London Marathon in 2024 for the Anthony Nolan Charity (which you should definitely look up if and sign up to be on the Stem Cell register)!

I have worked on a range of projects. In my PhD, I mainly focused on badgers. I had GPS data from different badgers, which I used to understand their movement patterns, and created a model to predict their movements. Since then, I have worked on a mathematical model on a mosquito population and done a sensitivity analysis to understand which of our input parameters provide the most variation in the output of the model. This is useful to understand where field work needs to take place to gather data to input into the model.

During my PhD and as a postdoctoral researcher, I have been able to travel for conferences, where I have been to Berlin, Rome, Edinburgh and I have a conference upcoming this year in Madrid.

My day also includes reading published work, for a literature review of my study area and keep me up to date with recent findings. I also do a bit of teaching when needed.