Chrysie studied for a BSc in Neuroscience and Psychology at KCL, during which she worked in the Cooke lab for her final year undergraduate project on the involvement of fast-spiking inhibitory neurons in long-term habituation. She then went to University College London for an MSc that also involved an extensive period of research at Yale in the US. She returned and is now working towards a PhD in Neuroscience at KCL on the MRC doctoral training program.