She has Bachelors (Honours) and Masters degrees in Mathematics from the University of Melbourne and she obtained her PhD at Columbia University in 1997. She was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University and a visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University before moving to Rutgers. She has held visiting positions in 4 continents, most recently at IHES in Paris and Universita dell’ Insurbria / Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests are in group theory, infinite dimensional Lie groups and Lie algebras and algebraic symmetries of high-energy theoretical physics.