Since 2000, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto,
Canada. She took her Bachelor of Science degree with honors at the
University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1990, and a Ph.D. at
Stanford University, California in 1994. She has done postdoctoral
research at Princeton University (1994-97) and the Institute for
Theoretical Physics (1997-2000). She is a member of the Toronto
high-energy theory group, where her focus is to understand the
fundamental dynamics of quantum gravity, using string theory and its
applications to black holes and cosmology.
She is a devoted Star Trek fan, but recognizes the difficulties time
travel would create in violating chronology.
Her work is given recognition by the "P" in the name "BMPV black hole",
a certain type of five-dimensional spinning black hole named after
physicists Jason Breckenridge, Rob Myers, Peet and Cumrun Vafa.