collaboration between the Australian National University and the University of Bordeaux in France. She completed her PhD in France with the intention to spend her early career in France or elsewhere overseas. When the offer of a post-doctoral position came up at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), Hobart, Tasmania, Armand, with her family, including a three-month-old son returned, to Australia. Armand now has a second son. Her post-doctoral research examined the role of sea ice dynamics in the Southern Ocean dynamics over the past 190,000 years. Her research has helped inform climate modellers and oceanographers about how sea ice extent helps drive ocean circulation and how this affects fisheries stocks, the broader food web, and also the underlying connections between sea surface temperatures and terrestrial climates. Armand was the first Australian recipient of the European Union's Marie Curie Incoming Fellowship in 2005, where she spent three years studying at the Institut Méditerranéen d' Océanographie, Université Aix-Marseille in collaboration with Prof. Bernard Quéguiner. Here she broadened her skill set to encompass the identification and distribution of living diatoms, through participation in the Kerguelen Island research mission (KEOPS) to understand natural iron-fertilisation of the oceans and the response stimulated in diatoms. As a result of this Fellowship Armand's expertise cuts across the living, exported to fossil diatoms making her a unique researcher in the diatom community. Armand was employed in 2009 by Macquarie University, and joined the Climate Futures Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University where she lectured in marine sciences and first year skills-based courses and headed a team of phytoplankton researchers and students. She was the Deputy Director of the MQ Marine Research Centre at Macquarie University (2015-2016). Armand participated in CSIRO's Scientists in Schools program, sharing her experiences as a female research scientist. Armand was the first Director of the national Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Alliance Network (CAPSTAN) designing a Master-level training at sea program with the Marine National Facility on the RV Investigator (2013-2017). Armand was the first Chief Scientist to take the new Australian research ship RV Investigator to the Southern Ocean with a team of international researchers to investigate past glacial and interglacial conditions off the coast of Antarctica near the Totten Glacier, Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica, in 2017. In 2018 Armand joined the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. She