Originally from Mozambique, I took the International Baccalaureate at the United World College of Southern Africa in Eswatini before moving to Canada, where I studied Biomedical Engineering at Simon Fraser University. A Commonwealth Scholarship brought me to Oxford for a DPhil in Engineering Science, and I have been here ever since.

My research grew directly out of my background. Growing up in a country where advanced medical imaging is largely unavailable, I became interested early on in building tools that work not just in well-equipped hospitals, but in the settings where they are most needed. That is what drew me to ultrasound and machine learning: together, they make it possible to study how the brain develops before birth in ways that are safe, affordable, and accessible anywhere in the world. After my DPhil, I held a postdoctoral position funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, before being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to establish my independent research group.

In 2021, I joined the Department of Computer Science and Pembroke College as Rokos Tutorial Fellow, re-establishing Computer Science at Pembroke, where the subject had not been offered for over 20 years. I care deeply about inclusion in research and in the university, both because of my own experience as someone who came to this field by an unconventional route, and because I believe the most important scientific questions are best answered by the most diverse teams.