I received my first degree in Psychology from the University of Oxford in 2009, followed by an M.Sc. degree in Evolutionary & Comparative Psychology from the University of St Andrews in 2011. It was here that I developed a keen interest in the intelligence of birds - particularly large-brained corvids - and I soon moved to New Zealand to conduct my PhD on tool-using New Caledonian crows, supervised by Prof Russell Gray.

In 2016 I returned to the UK as a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, working in Prof Nicky Clayton's Comparative Cognition Lab. From 2018-2019 I briefly left academia and spent a year as a director of a start-up in Bristol, providing training in science commercialisation for PhD students. However, ultimately, my heart lies in academic teaching and research. I joined the University of Bristol in 2019, where I now work on projects related to the science of happiness, in addition to conducting animal cognition research.