Dr Brandon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. After completing her PhD at the University of NSW, she moved to the Garvan Institute of Medical Research to work with Profs. Ted Kraegen and Gregory Cooney, where her interest in diet, obesity and insulin resistance began. In 2016 she moved to the University of Sydney to continue this research theme. In 2019 Dr Brandon was recruited to the group of Prof. Stephen Simpson to run a very large project to investigate the role of dietary macronutrient composition in metabolic health and aging.