​I come from Australia, however I grew up in many different countries. As a result of my upbringing I enjoy living in different countries and cultures, and this is how I ended up in KAUST. I am a laboratory technician here at KAUST focusing on next generation sequencing. Prior to this I was a laboratory technician at the Australian Genome Research Facility where I work in Array based genotyping, gene expression arrays and also next generation sequencing.