I am a trained biologist, who got interested in the Human Visual System very early on. After the research project
for my undergraduate degree from the University of Tübingen (1996), in which I assessed eye-, head- and arm
movements of normals and patients with cerebellar disorders, I went to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
and worked as a Research Assistant on statistical object properties. I then got my PhD in 1999 from the University
of Tübingen & the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics on ‘The Visual Perception of Features in Natural
Scenes and Faces’ (supervisors: Prof. Hadeler and Prof. Bülthoff). In 2002 I gained an Associate Teacher
Certificate in Higher Education  and  I am also registered with the Higher Education Academy.

I have been working with Sophie Wuerger at the Universities of Keele and Liverpool on colour and motion perception,
before joining the Optometry Department at Bradford in 2003 as a Research Associate working with Marina Bloj on the
'Sensitivity of Colour Gradients' (EPSRC-funded). From 2006 until 2009 I was working as a Senior Research Associate
together with Marina Bloj on High Dynamic Range for High Fidelity Image Synthesis of Real Scenes, for which I was a
co-applicant (jointly funded by the EPSRC and MoD).

I have been involved in project student supervision since 2001 and co-supervised two PhD-students: Monika Hedrich
and Luis Garcia Suarez who have graduated in 2009. In 2007 I managed to attract a Nuffield Undergraduate Science
Bursary to fund a summer project in the lab.

I'm a member of the Applied Vision Association (AVA) and have been working as a committee member for them from 2004
until 2009. I have organised AVA's AGMs in 2006 and 2007 at the University of Bradford and have been a guest editor
for Spatial Vision (Vol 20, 5, 2007). I am now a co-opted member of the executive committee with conference
management responsibilities.

In June 2005, I was a volunteer and role model for the 'Lab in a Lorry' project by the Let’s TWIST project (Train
Women in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology) at Bradford College in conjunction with the Institute
of Physics and the Schlumberger Foundation, which was great fun!