I obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Canterbury in 2003, conducting my Honours research with Prof. Juliet Gerrard, then did my PhD with Prof. Chris Dobson in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University as an inaugural Woolf Fisher scholar. From 2007 until 2012, I worked as a postdoctoral research assistant in the computer-aided chemistry group of Prof. Wilfred van Gunsteren at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. I took up a Lectureship at Massey University in 2012, where I was also a member of the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2014 and to Associate Professor in 2017, and awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015. In 2018, I moved to the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. I am also an Associate Investigator with the Biomolecular Interaction Centre at the University of Canterbury, and with the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery.