I am a postdoctoral research fellow working in the department of physiology and centre for brain research at the University of Auckland. I investigate dopamine circuits in the brain and their function in health and disease. My previous PhD research titled 'Characterisation of a novel dopamine pathway and its modulation by the subthalamic nucleus' was also conducted at the department of physiology under the supervision of Dr. Peter Freestone and Prof. Janusz Lipski.