[1] She achieved a DPhil in experimental particle physics in 1986 from The Queen's College, Oxford.

She has worked on the LHCb experiment since the first beam of particles were injected into the Large Hadron Collider in 2008.

[11] She developed the card game Hunt the Higgs and has acted as an adviser for exhibitions at the Science Museum.

[16] She has been part of the University of Cambridge's Athena SWAN and Project Juno committees.

[21] In 2016 she launched a three-day residential program for young women interested in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory.

[22] In 2016 she won a Royal Society Athena Prize for increasing gender diversity in mathematics, having been nominated by the Institute of Physics.