Science lover. Cooperation enhancer. Nature afficionado.#
Since September 2024, Kimberley is posted at ANU School of Cybernetics as a Secondee for the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN Inc.). Her role within the association as the Strategy and Operations Manager is to create avenues for collaboration between the French and the Australian research ecosystems. The School of Cybernetics offers her the ideal environment to immerse herself in a transdisciplinary ecosystem, to meet and exchange with a unique community of researchers, artists and motivated individuals from whom she can draw inspiration for the future development of AFRAN.
Her dedication to scientific cooperation comes from her previous role as a Science Officer at the Embassy of France to Australia where she has developed several skills around communication, event organisation, project management. Before settling in Canberra, a city she had fallen deeply in love with by the way, Kim was a researcher in immuno-oncology at RESTORE lab in Toulouse, Southern France, where she has completed a PhD. Her research interests were focused on ovarian and colorectal cancer, peritoneal metastasis, nuclear receptor and tissue-resident vs infiltrated macrophages.