I completed my Bachelors of Science with a major in Genetics at the University of Queensland, Australia. I did an honours thesis in the lab of Massimo Hilliard at the Queensland Brain Institute on axonal degeneration in C. elegans. I then moved to Vienna to join Manuel Zimmer's lab at the IMP to study how the nervous system of C. elegans switches between wake and sleep states. For my postdoc, I joined the lab of Alex Schier, shortly at Harvard, but mostly at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland. There, I delved into behavioural diversity of circadian activity timing across 60 species of cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. During this time I realised I wanted to combine this cross-species comparative behavioural approach, with in-depth systems neuroscience and genetics approaches. Thus, in my own lab we study how the small and stereotypic nervous systems of nematodes produce different behaviour across species.