Keen to develop her experience in regulatory affairs and to apply her scientific expertise in a consultancy role Victoria joined JSC in 1999.  

After graduating with a first class honours degree in Geography, Victoria went on to complete her MSc in Environmental Water Management, which fuelled her interest in environmental science and the natural environment.  After obtaining her MSc, Victoria was offered a position as a research scientist at the Soil Survey and Land Research Centre where she was responsible for conducting research and consultancy on specific projects related to soil hydrology, solute transport and the environmental fate and behaviour of agrochemicals in soil. She spent many happy, wet and muddy days in the field installing runoff traps and collecting lysimeter cores, and countless hours in the lab where she worked on the development of a novel technique to detect the spatial concentration of radio-labelled pesticide in soil cores.

As a member of the environmental fate and risk assessment team, she is responsible for work on projects concerned with environmental fate and behaviour issues relating to the EU registration of pesticides and biocides. She provides high quality technical support to the JSC team in all aspects of environmental fate and is responsible for conducting and interpreting the results of simulation modelling for input into the environmental risk assessment.

Victoria is very interested in wildlife and the natural world and spends many of her holidays watching wildlife.  Her latest trips have included whale watching in Sri Lanka, watching wolves in Yellowstone National Park in the US and searching for the elusive Jaguar in the Brazilian Pantanal.