Olivia works within the Soil Ecology Group, using eDNA metabarcoding and bioinformatics to characterise soil fungal and bacterial communities across forest ecosystems and land-use types (including short rotation forestry, agroforestry, hedgerows and woodland creation sites). Her work spans ITS and 16S rRNA metabarcoding, from processing OTU/ASV outputs and taxonomic assignment against UNITE and NCBI RefSeq, through to functional guild annotation (FUNGuild) and diversity analyses (alpha/beta diversity, NMDS, PERMANOVA) in R. She oversees eDNA data workflows from sequencing contractors through to analysis-ready datasets, contributes to the long-term ICP Forests Level II monitoring programme, and has worked on Defra-funded research into eDNA metabarcoding of forest microbial sources, pathways and sinks. She also contributes to grant proposal development for multi-year environmental monitoring projects, and is an editorial assistant for the journal Soil Use and Management.