I am Associate Professor in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. Between 2022 and 2024, I also served as Deputy Director (Research) in the ANU’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. I have published widely on China-Japan relations, the economics-security nexus in Asia, and the role of ideas in International Relations, and I currently lead a team researching China's historical and contemporary role in shaping the international economic order.

I have undertaken intensive language study and fieldwork in China, Japan and Taiwan over the past two decades, and provide regular research-based briefings and annual executive education courses to the Australian policy community on China and Japan. I received my D.Phil in International Relations and M.Phil in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, where I studied as an Australian Rhodes Scholar.

My research has been supported and recognised by a range of fellowships and awards, including an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship, a Westpac Research Fellowship, and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia's Paul Bourke Award for early career researchers.

Beyond China and Japan, my work has focused on gender equity in higher education and political life. I have led gender equity strategies and initiatives at the University of South Australia, Oxford and ANU, and co-authored research with Andrew Leigh on the effects of gender on election outcomes in Australia. In 2021, I was awarded the ANU’s Clare Burton Award for Excellence in Equity and Diversity.

For more information about my research, publications, teaching, and supervision (PhD, Masters and Honours students) please visit my personal website.