I studied Optometry at the University of Melbourne before moving to London in 2001 where I worked as an optometrist and lived in Toulouse. I completed a PhD at City University London, studying drug transporters in the retinal pigment epithelium and the mechanism of the electro-oculogram with Prof GB Arden and Prof JG Lawrenson as supervisors. I was a lecturer in optometry at City University of London from 2009-2014 and Senior Lecturer in 2015 after managing the undergraduate programme from 2012-2015 and developing the MOptom course. I am currently investigating the role of the electroretinogram in neurodevelopmental disorders.