[1] She studied abroad at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, during her undergrad, where she worked at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology.
Upon returning to Boulder, she worked with Steve Mojzsis on her honors thesis project about using cyclic rhythmites to trace the length of a day over millions of years.
She received a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013; her dissertation was titled Icy Satellite Tectonic, Geodynamic, and Mass Wasting Surface Features: Constraints on Interior Processes and Evolution.
In 2014, she joined the New Horizons team at SwRI as a postdoctoral researcher, where she studies the geophysics of Kuiper Belt Objects, particularly cratering physics.
[4][5][6][7][8] The results place constraints on formation and evolution models of the Solar System, suggesting that objects in the Kuiper Belt formed from rapidly collapsing dust clouds rather than incremental collisions of larger debris.