CV

Summary

My research focuses on numerical solutions to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, in cosmological and astrophysical contexts.

I am a member of the GRTL Collaboration (GR : Testing the Limits), and one of the key authors and developers of the publicly available GRChombo Numerical Relativity code www.grchombo.org.

I am currently Chair of the STFC DiRAC Resource Allocation Committee panel for astronomy and cosmology, and have been involved in benchmarking the next generation DiRAC3 resource. DiRAC provides distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) services to the STFC theory community. For more information go to the DiRAC website.

I am an associate member of the LISA consortium, and play an active role in the Waveform and Fundamental Physics working groups. LISA is a future ESA mission for a space based gravitational wave detector. For more information go to the ESA website.

I am on the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT), which aims to bring together the European community of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists. For more information go to the EuCAPT website.

Education and employment history

Date Description
October 2021 - present STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and lecturer - Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation group, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK
October 2018 - October 2021 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Theoretical Cosmology and Gravitational Physics - Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Oxford University, UK
October 2018 - October 2019 College Lecturer in Physics - St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, UK
January 2017 - October 2018 Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Astrophysics Department, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
October 2013 - January 2017 PhD - Dept Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology, King’s College London, UK
January 2011 - October 2013 (part time) Bachelor of Science - Physics (BSc (Hons) Open, 1st Class), Open University, UK
October 2002 - October 2006 Master of Engineering - Engineering Science (MEng, 1st Class), Oxford University, UK

During the period between my Masters degree and PhD I worked in finance:

  • Ernst & Young LLP London UK - Chartered Accountant (CA), Tax Assistant (2006-2009)
  • Ingenious Media Ltd London UK - Technical Manager (2009-2012)

Awards and grants

  • James Clerk Maxwell Medal Awarded in 2022 "for pioneering the use of advanced computational methods to investigate fundamental physics, achieving groundbreaking research in inflationary cosmology and dark matter, and demonstrating outstanding leadership in computational physics."
  • Ernest Rutherford Fellowship STFC Grant, 2021-2026, Solving cosmological questions in strong gravity
  • Springer Thesis Prize my thesis was selected for publication as one of the "best of the best"
  • PGCert Portfolio Prize Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Oxford
  • Claude Curling Prize best teaching assistant in physics, King’s College London
  • Edgell Sheppee Prize for excellent performance in Finals, Engineering dept, Oxford
  • College Scholar for distinction in Prelims, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

PhD student supervision

  • Areef Waeming 2023-present
  • Samuel Brady 2022-present
  • James Marsden 2021-present
  • Jamie Bamber 2020-2023

Teaching

Queen Mary University of London 2023 - present

  • Topics in scientific computing Part of the data analytics masters, materials can be found here

University of Oxford 2018 - 2021

  • General Relativity - third year tutorials at University College
  • Numerical Relativity - lecture for graduate students
  • Mathematical methods for engineering students first year tutorials at St Edmund Hall

Göttingen University 2017-2018

  • General Relativity - lectures on Manifolds to Masters students, problem classes
  • Numerical Relativity - two lecture course to Masters students
  • Visualisation of astrophysical simulations - Masters practical lab

King’s College London 2013-2016

  • Statistical Mechanics - 3rd year undergraduate problem classes
  • Group Theory, Nuclear Physics - 2nd year undergraduate problem classes
  • Mathematical Methods - 1st year undergraduate tutorials

Seminars and conferences

  • I have been invited to give Colloquia at AEI Hanover, Edinburgh (the Higgs Colloquium), ICG Portsmouth, UCL .
  • I have been invited to give Seminars at AEI Potsdam, Birmingham, Bologna, Cambridge, Cardiff, CENTRA Lisbon, Columbia NY, ICTP Trieste, Johns Hopkins, King's College London, Lancaster, LUTH Paris, Oxford, Nottingham, Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Perimeter Institute, Royal Holloway, Sheffield, Tuebingen .
  • I have participated in the following Workshops and Meetings: The APS April Meeting 2023 (Minneapolis), Current Challenges in Gravitational Physics (SISSA, Trieste), Dark Matter and Stars (Lisbon), Dark matter 2023: From the largest to the smallest scales (Santander), The Einstein Toolkit Meeting (London and Aveiro), Forefronts in Cosmology and Numerical General Relativity (Salzburg), JENAS Initiative "Gravitational wave probes of fundamental physics (Rome), LISA Fundamental Physics (Brussels), LISA Waveform Working Group Meeting (AEI Potsdam), Multifield Cosmology (Simons Centre, Stony Brook, US), Numerical Relativity Beyond General Relativity (Benasque), Numerical Relativity (Jena), Open Questions in Particle Physics (Goettingen), the Peyresque workshop (France), Physics of the Early Universe(ICTS Bengaluru).
  • I was one of the organisers of Britgrav24 at QMUL (2024), Kings and Queens of Gravity at QMUL/KCL (2023), the Collabor8 conference for young researchers at Nottingham (2017) and Lancaster (2018).
  • I participated in the Advanced Training Programme for Extreme Scale Computing at Argonne Labs (USA), July 2015