Lucy joined IDDO in November 2024 to work on geospatial models of anti-malarial drug resistance. Lucy has recently submitted her PhD thesis, titled “Informing public health decisions with geospatial models of vector-borne disease”. During her PhD, she developed geospatial models of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Southeast Asia and Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia. She also worked on frameworks for model-informed decision-making for disease surveillance site selection. 

Before commencing her PhD, she obtained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computational Biology, in 2018 and a Master of Computational Biology in 2020 from the University of Melbourne.