I began as an Anne Warner Fellow at the MBA in April 2026. My research aims to dissect the neurochemical and functional architecture of the cephalopod viusal system and determine how it generates coordinated behaviour.

I obtained my BSc in Biomedical Sciences from University College Dublin, Ireland. I then remained at UCD to complete my PhD in the laboratory of Dr Mark Pickering, where I established the comb jelly Pleurobrachia pileus as a model organism for systems neuroscience.

In 2020 I joined the laboratory of William Schafer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher. During this time, I investigated the evolution of ligand gated ion channels in Octopus vulgaris and their roles in visual information processing. This work was carried out in close collaboration with the laboratory of Eve Seuntjens at KU Leuven in Belgium.