Gibney studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge.
Gibney worked in the communications team for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN.
[5] She dubbed the excitement surrounding particle physics after detection of the Higgs boson as Higgsteria.
[9] in 2015, she was highly commended at the Science Journalism Awards for her short video "Laniakea: Our home supercluster".
[10][11] She has written for Scientific American, The Sunday Times, BBC News and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).