Jessica graduated from a Bachelors of Medical Science, majoring in Neurobiology, from UNSW in 2022. She is now currently undertaking Neuroscience Honours at UNSW, supervised by Cynthia Shannon Weickert and Hayley North. Her research project this year is investigating the relationship between neuroinflammation, the blood brain barrier, angiogenesis and neurogenesis in the brains of people with schizophrenia.