Sylvia is a PhD researcher in the School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She is supervised by Prof. Brant Walkley and Dr. Lewis Blackburn. She is a part of the Sustainable Materials at Sheffield (SMASH) and Immobilisation Science Laboratory (ISL) research groups.

Her research focuses on developing solidification routes for encapsulation of radioiodine in cementitious wasteforms. This work aims to provide sustainable conditioning solutions for problematic radioactive wastes. Sylvia's research is funded by the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (UKNNL) and an EPSRC scholarship. She is part of the GREEN (Growing skills for Reliable Economic Energy from Nuclear) CDT, a consortium training the next generation of nuclear scientists and engineers. She also benefits from industrial supervision by Dr. Joshua Turner from UKNNL. Sylvia obtained her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Previously, she also completed a SURE (Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience) project evaluating the effects of superplasticizers on alkali-activated cementitious materials with Prof. Walkley and Micael Silva. This experience sparked her interest in research for sustainable materials.

In addition to her PhD, Sylvia is the Events and Logistics Coordinator at Applied Nuclear and Fusion Science (ANFS) society.