I am from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. I have been interested in astronomy since I was about six years old and have pursued that career path ever since. I did my undergraduate work at the University of NSW in Sydney where I completed my B.Sc. in physics. I went to Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, for my doctoral degree in astrophysics. While I was a graduate student I spent one year as the WIYN intern - working with the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ. After graduate school I worked for two years as a post-doctoral research scientist at the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas at Austin. For the past year I have been an assistant professor of physics at Albertson College. My research is in the area of observational cosmology - mostly developing ways of measuring the distance to galaxies.

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