Natalie is an Associate Professor in Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Natalie completed a BSc (Hons) in Astrophysics at The University of Edinburgh before doing an MSc in Microelectronics. She then completed her PhD on the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics with Rebecca Cheung also at The University of Edinburgh.

Natalie has taught and continues to teach a range of the physics courses at VUW, from first year level through to honours. She also supervises honours and masters students as well as a cohort of PhD students.

Natalie's current research interests are in the field of nanomaterial biosensors. We are studying new ways of making electronic devices out of nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes and graphene. To make our sensors we couple biological receptors, such as aptamers, or insect odorant receptors onto our nanomaterial, to make ultrasensitive and selective sensors. See the research and publications tab for more details.