[4] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 2003,[1] where she began to work with gallium nitride under the supervision of Andrew Briggs.

[5] She studied the morphology of gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs), identifying what factors controlled their efficiency and the impact of defects.

[5] She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to study semi-polar nitride based structures.

[2][8] Her research considers ways to engineer the nanostructure of light emitting diodes and how this impacts macroscopic device performance.

[citation needed] She designed a quasi-two-temperature growth method to pattern GaN quantum dots, which improved their emission by a factor of ten.