Amie completed an Integrated Master’s degree in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. Her undergraduate dissertation explored the chemical enrichment of the first galaxies using cosmological simulations. As a trainee at ESA, she investigated winds in high-mass X-ray binaries with XMM-Newton, which motivated her subsequent master’s research. Her thesis focused on AGN, using XMM-Newton spectroscopy and Bayesian methods to study black-hole driven winds and outflows.