Postdoctoral Research Experience
Center for Computational Astrophysics
Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)
Flatiron Research Fellow
present
California Institute of Technology
and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow
2014-2017
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Visiting Research Scholar
2014-2016
Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)
Flatiron Research Fellow
present
California Institute of Technology
and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow
2014-2017
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Visiting Research Scholar
2014-2016
Teaching
July 2015: Instructor, California Institute of Technology
Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School, Pulsar Timing Array Session.
Lecture and hands-on exercises + solutions (with ipython notebook) available on github
2010-2013 Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Math Matters, Engineering section.
2009-2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Laboratory Assistant: Foundation year, Chaos, Yr2 Labs: Optics
Skills and Examples Classes: EM&QM, Eigenphysics, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian, Yr 1 Skills, Yr 2 Skills.
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
18 sections (3 per term for all 3 terms for 2 years) of undergraduate classes including linear algebra (for engineers, scientists and business students), physics labs and calculus (for engineers, scientists and business students).
Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School, Pulsar Timing Array Session.
Lecture and hands-on exercises + solutions (with ipython notebook) available on github
2010-2013 Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Math Matters, Engineering section.
2009-2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Laboratory Assistant: Foundation year, Chaos, Yr2 Labs: Optics
Skills and Examples Classes: EM&QM, Eigenphysics, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian, Yr 1 Skills, Yr 2 Skills.
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
18 sections (3 per term for all 3 terms for 2 years) of undergraduate classes including linear algebra (for engineers, scientists and business students), physics labs and calculus (for engineers, scientists and business students).
_Education
University of Birmingham, UK.
2010 - 2014 PhD in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays,
Supervisor: Alberto Vecchio.
University of Birmingham, UK.
2009 - 2010 One year project designing, building and aligning a novel interferometer
to measure surface corrugations as part of the Inverse Square Law experiment.
Universita' di Bologna, Italy.
Oct 2007- Sep 2009 MSc in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Supervisors: Alexandre Kamenshchick and Francesco Ravanini.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Sep 2001- Feb 2006 BSc Double Honours Mathematics and Physics,
Honours Project in General Relativity with Dave Amundsen.
2010 - 2014 PhD in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays,
Supervisor: Alberto Vecchio.
University of Birmingham, UK.
2009 - 2010 One year project designing, building and aligning a novel interferometer
to measure surface corrugations as part of the Inverse Square Law experiment.
Universita' di Bologna, Italy.
Oct 2007- Sep 2009 MSc in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Supervisors: Alexandre Kamenshchick and Francesco Ravanini.
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Sep 2001- Feb 2006 BSc Double Honours Mathematics and Physics,
Honours Project in General Relativity with Dave Amundsen.
Professional Affiliations
- American Astronomical Society
- American Physical Society
- NANOGrav
- European Pulsar Timing Array
- International Pulsar Timing Array
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
- Associate Member of the Institute of Physics (AmIoP)