Emma is a theoretical physicist studying interacting quantum systems at the intersection of condensed-matter physics and the physics of ultracold atomic gases. She grew up in Northern Queensland and holds first-class Honours degrees in both chemistry (James Cook University) and physics (University of Melbourne and Monash University). She completed her PhD in physics at Monash University under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jesper Levinsen and Prof. Meera Parish. In 2022, she was the sole finalist from the state of Victoria for the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Bragg Gold Medal for her thesis on strongly correlated Fermi gases.
Emma was awarded a Women in FLEET research fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics and Technologies (FLEET) in 2022. She has taken up this fellowship as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Matthew Davis at the University of Queensland, where she is studying the dynamics of the emergence of superfluidity in ultracold Fermi gases. She is concurrently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project (2024–2026) on the hydrodynamics of quantum fluids with Prof. Karen Kheruntsyan.
