Education

DPhil in Zoology 
2012 - 2016
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Thesis title: “Female aggression in flies”
Supervisors: Stuart Wigby, Nathalie Seddon, Joseph Tobias

Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours)/ Bachelor of Arts
2007- 2011
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Majors: Biology, International Relations, History
Honours thesis: “Reproductive isolation and interference: Morphology, behaviour and genitalia in two species of neriid flies”
Honours supervisors: Russell Bonduriansky, Nik Tatarnic

Grants and Awards

2017
Young Scientist Seminar Series Winner, iBiology, USA

2016
John Fell Fund Grant, University of Oxford

​2015
Invited scholar, Falling Walls Lab, Berlin
Three Minute Thesis University Champion, University of Oxford
FameLab Regional Finalist, FameLab International, Science Oxford
Special grant, St John’s College, University of Oxford

2014
Travel grant, International Society for Behavioural Ecology Conference, New York, USA
Best student poster, Oxford Zoology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oxford, UK
Best student talk, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter Conference, University of Sheffield, UK

2013
North Senior Scholarship, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK
Travel grant, Ento '13 Conference, Royal Entomological Society, UK
Special grant, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK
Best student talk, Oxford Zoology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oxford, UK

2012
NSW Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Trust, Oxford, UK

2011
University Medal for Biological Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Alton & Neryda Fancourt Chapple Biological Science Award, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Academic Excellence Award, University of New South Wales Sport and Recreation, Sydney, Australia

2010
Faculty of Science Summer Vacation Research Scholarship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Presentations

Academic
2014
‘Mating mediates female fighting’ (Poster)
International Society for Behavioural Ecology Conference, New York

‘Mating mediates female fighting’ (Poster)
Oxford Zoology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oxford

‘Female competition in stalk-eyed flies’
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter conference, University of Sheffield

2013
‘Female competition in stalk-eyed flies’ 
Oxford Zoology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oxford

‘The evolution of mutual ornamentation in stalk-eyed flies’
Ento’13, University of St Andrew’s, Scotland

Outreach
2015
‘Mating and female aggression’ & ‘Exaggerated traits’
Oxford FameLab heat and regional final, Oxford

2014
‘Sex in biology: studying biology at university’
School visit, St John’s College, University of Oxford

2013
‘How the stalk-eyed flies got their stalks’
St John’s College SCR/MCR Lecture Supper Series, St John’s College, University of Oxford

Research Experience

2016
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Wigby lab, University of Oxford, Oxford

• Worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr Irem Sepil on a project focusing on ageing in Drosophila​​
  

2011-12
Research assistant
Bonduriansky lab, University of New South Wales

• Worked for Russell Bonduriansky on a project focusing on ageing in neriid flies
• Worked for Angela Crean on a project focusing on sperm dynamics in neriid flies

2007-8, 2012
Research assistant
Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

• Worked for Andrew Byrnes on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Asian Development Bank and the Convention against Torture
• Attended, as an observer, the International Women’s Right Action Watch Asia Pacific Consultation on the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, in Kathmandu, Nepal (2007)

Teaching Experience

2017
Developing Learning and Teaching Course
Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford

Tutor
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

• Co-designed 2 practicals in 2nd year course ‘Observations & Experiments in Behaviour’, with Dr Jennifer Perry
• Taught tutorials in 3rd year courses 'Behavioural Ecology' and 'Evolutionary Ecology of Animals'

2014-16
Graduate tutor
University of Oxford

• Taught tutorials in second year courses 'Quantitative Methods' and  ‘Evolution’ 
• Taught tutorials in third year courses 'Behavioural Ecology and ‘Evolutionary ecology of animals’

2013-15
Undergraduate project co-supervisor 
University of Oxford

• Co-supervisor for three Final Honours School project student in 2013 & 2015
  
  

2013-16
Lab demonstrator
University of Oxford

• Demonstrated in the second year Observations and Experiments in Behaviour course
• Demonstrated in the first and second year Quantitative Methods courses