Nicole is currently a PhD candidate in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is supervised by Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns and Dr. Andrew McPherson, in the Augmented Instruments Lab. Her research explores audience interaction and site-specific design approaches to sound installation artworks.
As a classically trained cellist and multi-instrumentalist, Nicole is an experienced performer and has played at concert halls and music festivals around the world, on television programmes such as Later... with Jools Holland (1, 2) and live for BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and 6 Music.