The group's resident wordsmith, Catie helps with grant applications, journal manuscripts and other writing that comes her way. Before coming to Oxford, she worked at a non-for-profit public policy research institute in Cambridge and reported news about research policy and funding for publications Research Fortnight and Research Europe.

Catie's PhD focused on quantitative methods for studying protein networks in cells, and she has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics. Both degrees are from McGill University in Canada. She works jointly with Philipp Kukura's research group.