I am a Research Fellow in the Moon laboratory stuyding how the malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi invades the human red blood cells.

I did my Bachelors degree in Biomedical Science at the University of Iceland and then moved across the world where I did my Bachelor of Science Honours degree at the University of Melbourne and the Burnet Institute. This is when I began my journey into the world of malaria research. My Honours research was focused on protein export in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum at the Burnet Institute, and I then did my PhD in the same lab where I looked into the essential role of the Plasmodium translocon of protein export (PTEX) during the asexual blood stage of P. falciparum. After my PhD, I moved to Northern Sweden and began my Postdoc at Umeå University. There I worked on establishing a high-throughput CRISPR-Cas9 system in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei as well as the characterisation of individual parasite proteins during the asexual blood stage. After my post in Umeå I moved to London and started working at LSHTM, where my primary focus is looking into the invasion processes of P. knowlesi.