[1] She is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.
[2] Clough studied at the University of Oxford, where she earned a master of engineering degree in 2006.
After working in finance as an accountant and technical manager, she began studying physics through the Open University, earning a bachelor's degree in 2013, and went on for a Ph.D. in the Department of Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at King's College London in 2017.
[3] Her dissertation, Scalar Fields in Numerical General Relativity: Inhomogeneous Inflation and Asymmetric Bubble Collapse, was supervised by Eugene A. Lim; it was published in the Springer Theses book series after a nomination as an outstanding doctoral dissertation by King's College.
She moved to Queen Mary University of London as STFC Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow in 2021.