Olivia is a final-year undergraduate student studying biomedical sciences at Cardiff University. She previously spent 10 months in the Armstrong Group in 2023-2024 on a research project developing injectable collagen-based biomaterials and is currently working on a cartilage mechanobiology study for her final year project at Cardiff University. She will re-join the Armstrong Group in 2026 as a PhD student funded by the GW4 BioMed MRC Doctoral Training Partnership, in which she will work on a project developing and testing new innervating biomaterials for applications in endogenous tissue repair.