I hold a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Mechanical and Space Engineering from the University of Queensland (UQ), awarded in 2006 and 2002 respectively. After a brief postdoc in robotics at UQ, I worked for three years at the Queensland Brain Institute as a Research Fellow on the Thinking Systems Project. In 2010 I moved to the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to finish off my Thinking Systems postdoc, and then was appointed as a Lecturer in 2011. In 2012 I was awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, which provides me with a research-intensive fellowship salary and extra funding support for 3 years. In 2013 I became a Microsoft Faculty Fellow. I am currently a Senior Lecturer at QUT with a research focus, although I continue to teach Introduction to Robotics every year. My research interests include:

• Vision-based mapping and navigation
• Computational modelling of the rodent hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, especially with respect to mapping and navigation
• Biologically inspired robot navigation and computer vision
• Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM)