About Me
I was born in the city of Exeter, Devon, UK, and grew up in a tiny village in the centre of Devon called Copplestone. Green rolling hills, beaches, moors, farms, a nice place to grow up in. I attended primary school, secondary school and sixth form in the area.
I moved to Leicester for four years for my undergraduate and integrated masters where I studied Mathematics with Astronomy. I graduated from the University of Leicester with a 1st at MMath level in 2011.
I completed PhD in astrophysics at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, studying under Prof. Daisuke Kawata. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with a fantastic group of people surrounded by the natural beauty of the Surrey Hills. Following my PhD I spent a further six months or so working for the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU6) for the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, also at MSSL
In September 2016 I moved to Toronto to take up a Dunlap Fellowship at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, primarily collaborating with Prof. Jo Bovy. Following that I moved to New York as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Centre For Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron institute, which is part of the Simons Foundation, collaborating mainly with Prof. Kathryn Johnston and her dynamics group, and Prof. David Hogg's Astronomical Data Group.
In October 2023 I will join the University of Surrey as a Surrey Future Fellow.