Nicole is the Academic Director of Global Education Initiatives in the University Office of Global Affairs and an Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment. As a Registered Architect in NSW (ARB 7921), she brings experience from practice in Australia and the United Kingdom to research and teaching that examines the history and future of design and urban technology. Her research examines how digital technologies are reshaping the practice of architecture and the built environment from the perspective of education, labour, organisational behaviour, and gender. She is the sole author of Scaling the Smart City: The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology (Elsevier, 2024), and has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers on design technology innovation. Nicole has won and led multiple Commonwealth-funded grants on design technology innovation and the work of Japanese architect Shoei Yoh, and is a Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ARC ITTC) for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing (arch manu) awarded in 2022 and the ARC ITTC for Accelerating Circularity Adoption, awarded in 2026. Nicole won a UNSW Faculty Research Fellowship in 2021, and two best paper awards in 2025. She is a member of the Design Institute of Australia and the Computer Aided Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) organisation, and held a Chair role for the CAADRIA conference: "Accelerated Design" in 2024 and co-editor of the CAADRIA “Post-Carbon” conference proceedings in 2022. Nicole is committed to productively connecting theory with practice to drive real-world impact by building collaborations between researchers and the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry.