Sandeep Shirgill graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2019 with an MSci in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, specialising in mathematical biology for her Master's project. She went on to complete an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2024, investigating the effects of metal ions released from bioactive glass fibres on wound-associated biofilms, under the supervision of Dr Sarah A. Kuehne, Dr Gowsihan Poologasundarampillai, and Dr Sara Jabbari.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Infection, Inflammation, and Immunology at the University of Birmingham, working with Professor Dylan Owen. Her research focuses on using deep learning to analyse the spatial organisation of proteins within cells, imaged through single-molecule localisation microscopy, a super-resolution microscopy technique.