I chose physics because of a chemistry class I had! We were learning about electron orbitals and how they fill and the concept of 'electron spin' was brought up in this context. I asked my teacher to explain more about this thing called 'spin' and she told me to ask a physics teacher, so I did. From then on I was hooked on quantum physics and I haven't looked back. I was also heavily inspired by the incredible Emmy Noether and her trailblazing work in physics.

During my undergraduate physics degree, I purposefully took a broad range of physics modules to find out what areas I enjoyed the most. Physics is such a broad subject that it can seem a bit intimidating to narrow it down. Time and time again, I found myself more engaged in the modules related to quantum physics, atomic physics, solid-state physics and nanophotonics.

I did a research placement working for a telecommunications company on the research and development side of their semiconductor lasers. This was mostly experimental-based and it was the time when I truly realised that experimental quantum physics was where my passion came out the most, rather than the theoretical and computational side of things.

For my PhD project, it's mostly experimental but I also get to do some computational work too which I find compliments my work in the lab.