I completed my PhD in the lab of Prof. Paul Timpson at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. My thesis work involved the development of a dual imaging approach for intravital microscopy in live mouse pancreatic tumours, tracking the changes in oxygen content using nanoparticle reporters, while performing parallel Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy of therapeutic response using a Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) reporter for PI3K pathway activity. For my postdoc, I moved to the lab of Prof. Johanna Ivaska at the University of Turku. Here, I established several three-dimensional (3D) in vitro assays and image-based screening systems to expand out understanding of breast cancer invasive progression. Establishing my lab at the University of Helsinki in September 2024, we have begun to investigate the relationship between the tumour microenvironment (TME) and metastatic progression.