HUDSON PEOPLE - Kelly Crossley

NAME 

Kelly Crossley

POSITION / GROUP / CENTRE  

Senior Research Fellow for Prof Stuart Hooper's Fetal and Neonatal Health Research Group in The Ritchie Centre

I WAS BORN IN

Dandenong (Home of the best hot jam donuts in town)

BEFORE HUDSON I WAS DOING 

The same same but in a different location.

THE BEST PART OF MY JOB IS

Learning new things that have the potential to make a real difference in newborn lives, working with wonderful people and bossing people around.

I CHOSE THIS CAREER PATH BECAUSE 

I love science. Nerdy I know!!

IF I WASN’T DOING THIS JOB I WOULD BE 

A truck driver

MY FIRST JOB WAS 

Working in a deli

MY FAVOURITE MOVIE/TV IS 

Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

I AM WORKING ON 

The physiological effects of cool things (like delaying umbilical cord clamping after birth, maternal and fetal caffeine treatment before birth, adrenaline and chest compressions at birth, congenital diaphragmatic hernia ± antenatal sildenafil administration, to name a few) on the fetal to neonatal transition at birth.       

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR SO FAR 

Hiking up 3 mountains in 3 days around the Main Range National Park in Queensland.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD 

To going to the Spring-8 synchrotron in Japan again in November to do lots of really cool experiments and spending summer holidays with my husband and three kids.

MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD 

Is a camping spot just out of Tocumwal on the Murray River and Lake Como.

OUTSIDE OF WORK I ENJOY 

Camping, dirt bike riding and socialising

MY FAVOURITE PLACE TO EAT 

By the campfire with family and friends

THE BEST ADVICE I'VE RECEIVED 

If you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.