I am a designer, researcher, certified diving instructor, sailor, and ocean advocate.

With experience across industry and academia, I am motivated by applied research projects with real world impact. I have expertise in designing for the marine environment and in environmentally compatible materials, including biomaterials. Fostering ocean literacy through public engagement and teaching is also one of my passions. My design and artistic projects combine additive manufacturing with material experimentation and other media.

I am currently Project Officer and Research Planner for the Pilot Deployment Program, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program for the Great Barrier Reef at Australian Institute of Marine Science. My previous positions include Lecturer in Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT University (AU), Aalto University (FI), IADE University (PT) and at the Why Factory future cities research group at Delft University of Technology (NL). I hold PhD, Master and Bachelor-degrees in Design.

My work has been exhibited widely, including ‘Urchin Corals and Process’ at NGV Australia (2021) ‘Urchin Corals’ in the NGV 2020 Triennial (2020), ‘Arctic Imports’/‘New Urban Luxuries’ at Droog 20+ at Salone del Mobile in Milan (2013), ‘Foodprint Manhattan’ at Pioneers of Change in New York (2009), ‘City Pig’ and ‘Foodprint the Hague’ at Stroom the Hague (2009). In 2019 I co-curated the ‘The Critical Tide’ for Helsinki Design Museum, exhibition that also travelled to the European Parliament. I have co-authored two books under the titles: Green Dream (2010) and Visionary Cities (2010).