I was born in Northern Ireland before moving to South Yorkshire at the start of my secondary education. I then attended the University of Leeds from 2014 for an integrated undergraduate and masters degree in Physics with Astrophysics, from which I graduated in 2018 with first-class with honours degrees as Master of Physics (MPhys) and Bachelor of Science (Bsc). I then completed my PhD in Astronomy at KU Leuven in Belgium in the summer of 2022. From there, I began as a postdoctoral researcher at STScI in Baltimore.