What nationality is neuroscientist Simone Garnett described as?

Simone Garnett is described as Australian. She is a neuroscientist introduced in the third season of The Good Place and later becomes romantically involved with Chidi Anagonye.

Simone works with Chidi on an academic research project examining consciousness and the brain. When she becomes one of the people involved in the experiment connected to the afterlife, she initially interprets the strange neighborhood as a hallucination produced by her brain at the moment of death.

Her scientific background creates a useful contrast with Chidi's philosophical training. Chidi approaches questions through ethics and moral theory, while Simone relies on neuroscience and empirical explanations. Their relationship also complicates the experiment because the participants' personal histories affect how they interpret what is happening.

Simone is played by Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The character is sometimes confused with other international figures in the show's ensemble, but the series specifically identifies her as an Australian neuroscientist. She is not American, Canadian, or British in the show's character description.