Katrina is an early-career Research Scientist at the CSIRO, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre in Perth, Western Australia. She completed her PhD at Curtin University in 2020 during which she conducted large-scale applications of eDNA metabarcoding to characterise marine, estuarine and cave communities across northwestern Australia and the Indian Ocean Territories. Her postdoctoral fellowship in the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart, Tasmania focused on extending eDNA metabarcoding capabilities and applications for Australian marine fish and elasmobranch monitoring.