Steph joined the Hydrology and Water Resource group with Prof. Wouter Buytaert in April 2026 as a Research Software Engineer (RSE). She supports the development of the group's software outputs, with a focus on the Schmidt Sciences-funded project, 'Unlocking local knowledge production for global water reanalysis', which forms part of the Virtual Institute for Earth's Water (VIEW). 

Prior to this role, she worked within Imperial's central RSE team since March 2025. She holds a DPhil in computational drug discovery from the University of Oxford.