Ruby is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2018, which investigated genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors associated with late-life depression. After the PhD, she moved to the UK and has held postdoctoral positions in the Department of Psychiatry and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. She currently works on the Lifespan Multimorbidity Research Collaborative, which focuses on multimorbidity between internalising disorders and cardiometabolic disease, and its development across the life course. Her research interests include early-life factors and biomarkers associated with health trajectories across the life course, neurodegenerative disorders and late-life mental health, and sex differences in the susceptibility and progression of disease.