Julie studied Clinical and Occupational Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome and was later invited to Kingston University London to conduct a PhD exploring contemporary psychoactive substance use. She is interested in research that combines quantitative and qualitative enquiry to explore individual and social processes. She also does work on research reliability issues, such as conducting replicability investigations. Her work experience in different academic settings has provided her broad interdisciplinary understanding and research flexibility but also allowed her to understand the systemic and macro-structural issues that are negatively affecting scientific discovery. She sees a solution to these endemic issues in the structural reinforcement of transparent research processes, and in persuading higher education institutions to give increased value to the aspirations and drive of early-career researchers.