Ava Khamseh graduated with a PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, under the supervision of Luigi Del Debbio at the Higgs Centre, in 2017 (after also having been an undergraduate degree in Physics at Edinburgh). After a year of postdoc in Prof Chris Ponting’s lab, she became a Cross-Disciplinary Fellow (XDF) at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC) at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a Lecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, joint between the School of Informatics and IGC. Her research involves designing experiments and developing causal mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods for applications to cancer biology and large-scale population biomedicine.