Catherine Drysdale began her research career at the University of Birmingham as a TPAM student. Her master’s thesis won the James Mann prize for best project in Applied Mathematics and resulted in a publication between the Université Grenoble Alpes. Following this, she completed a PhD as part of the SSeMID (Stability and Sensitivity Methods for Industrial Design) International Training Network as a Marie Curie PhD scholar in Paris, France, under the supervision of Denis Sipp. Her affiliated laboratory and university were ONERA and Ecole Polytechnique respectively. Her work focussed on why reduced order modelling techniques such as Amplitude Equations and Weakly Nonlinear Expansions fail for partial differential equations when the linear operator is non-self-adjoint. Before joining Birmingham she worked at Nashville-based healthcare start-up ForBetterHealth as a lead researcher in the developing arbitrage frameworks between insurers and providers of preventative healthcare. Returning to academia, she is particularly interested in non-self-adjoint operators and efficient numerical calculation of pseudospectra. She hopes to use pseudospectra in the modelling of biological rhythms and why they are sensitive to some perturbations and not others.