I am Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University.

I am concurrently Non-Resident Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; at Asia Society Australia, and at the Lowy Institute. I am a proud member of the the Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS) initiative. I was a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University for spring 2024 through the DFAT-funded Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies.

I am Associate Editor for H-Diplo ISSF, Contemporary Security Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. I serve on the Board of Advisors for my alma mater, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and for the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations.

I was previously Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. During my time at HKU, I was also a research fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and the East Asia Institute (Seoul) in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia. I was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.