Marjorie is undertaking a PhD with Professor Kate McGrath based at Victoria University down in Wellington, but will be spending time in Palmy with the Biophysics Group, using the optical tweezers to probe the interactions between emulsion drops. She graduated from North Carolina State University and has spent time both at Unilever and at Kraft. She is enjoying the NZ outdoors, carries her bike everywhere she goes, and also has a shared passion with several other members of the group for extreme-microfluidic-chip-testing.