Emma completed her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of York. She continued there, undertaking a PhD in the Physics of Life group studying the motility characteristics of predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Emma is currently a postdoctoral research associate working in the Lee Lab in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Cambridge. She works as part of a multi-disciplinary team studying alpha synuclein protein aggregates in Parkinson's disease brain tissue. This project is funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's: ASAP research network.