Her PhD research was mainly field-based as was subsequent research into fungal-plant interactions as post-doctoral fellow at Arizona State University. Tamaru Hunt-Joshi also holds a Master of Science degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology, and a Masters degree from Cornell University. She also has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Southampton University in the UK.
Since moving to Ireland with her family in 2007, she has maintained a strong interest in ecology and the ecosystems along the west coast of Ireland with a particular interest in botany.
