Sarah is a molecular and behavioural neuroscientist in the Biological Psychology group in the School of Psychology and a member of Sussex Neuroscience. She obtained her BSc in Biology at the University of Bristol, followed by an MSc in Molecular Genetics and a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. Sarah then went to Yale University where she worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Molecular Psychiatry Department for 7 years, before returning to a lecturership at Sussex. She was promoted to Reader in 2014, and Professor in 2024. 

Sarah has served as member of Senate, and was the Director of Doctoral Studies for Psychology (2016-2021)