Curriculum Vitae
Publication Summary
First author papers: 4
All papers: 18
For more details see Publications
Professional Career & Education
2022- Research Associate, Newcastle University
2018-2022 Astronomy PhD, Durham University
2014-2018 MMathsPhys (First Class Honours), University of Warwick
2012-2014 A* (Physics), A* (Maths), A* (Further Maths), A (Chemistry), Furze Platt Senior School (top performing student)
Grants, Awards and Prizes
2023 Durham University Winton prize for best physics PhD thesis, £1000 prize
2023 STFC Spark award for project "Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East", £13,724 awarded
2022 STEM Ambassador 30 hours of engagement badge
2022 DESI summer collaboration meeting ECS travel grant, ~£1000 estimated awarded
2022 Special Recognition Award for outstanding contribution to STEM education in the NE
2022 Ogden Outreach Awards Postgraduate Student Ambassador, £25 prize
2022 Highly commended 'Outstanding New STEM Ambassador'
2022 'I'm a Scientist, get me out of here' zone winner , £500 prize for outreach
2021 STEM Ambassador 30 hours of engagement badge
2021 Durham Castle College award for outstanding leadership
2021 STEM for Britain, silver award for Physics, £750 prize
2021 IOP Early Career Physics Communicator Award, £50 commissioning prize
2019 Elsevier Prize for Physics (best 1st year Physics PhD, Durham), £100 prize
2019 Women in STEM video competition, 3rd place, watch the video here
STEM Ambassador 30 hours of engagement badge
Receiving my Ogden Trust outreach award at The Royal Society, London.
Receiving my silver award at the STEM for Britain awards ceremony (credit: John Deehan Photography and the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee)
Special recognition award for outstanding contribution to STEM education in the North East of England
Media Engagement
Press releases
2023 'Radio signals reveal secrets of hidden supermassive black holes', Newcastle and Durham University, Space.com article
2022 'Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the COSMOS', LBL
Radio interviews
2024 Radio Northumberland: 'Space Investigators' (00:30:00)
2022 BBC Tyne and Tees radio interview: 'Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the COSMOS'
Podcast interviews
2024 Why?: 'What is the most powerful thing in the Universe?'
2023 Kielder Observatory Podcast: 'Quasars and the evolution of the universe!'
2022 Physics by the River: 'Red Quasars and Science Outreach with Victoria Fawcett'
Conference and Seminar Talks
Invited conference talks: 4
2024 PLANCKS UK & Ireland, guest speaker (University of Surrey, UK)
2023 DESI Meeting, plenary talk (Durham University, UK)
2022 AAS 239th Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah (cancelled due to COVID, talk moved to CosmoPalooza)
2021 DESI Meeting, plenary talk (remote)
Contributed conference talks: 24
2024 DEX-XX (Durham University, UK)
2024 VLT/MOONS January meeting (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
2023 Lorentz Centre meeting, "The importance of jet-induced feedback on galaxy scales" (Leiden, Netherlands)
2023 National Astronomy Meeting x2 (Cardiff University, UK)
2023 VLT/MOONS March meeting (Edinburgh University, UK)
2023 DEX-XIX (Edinburgh University, UK)
2022 What drives the growth of black holes? A decade of reflection (Reykjavik, Iceland)
2022 DESI June Meeting spotlight talk (San Francisco, USA)
2022 AGNXIV, Florence (unable to attend)
2022 AAS 240th Meeting, Pasadena (unable to attend)
2022 DEX-VIII, UK (remote), commended long talk
2021 Durham Disc Winds, long talk (Durham University, UK)
2021 The Past, Present, and Future of the VLA: celebrating 40 years (remote)
2021 National Astronomy Meeting (remote)
2021 DESI June Meeting (remote)
2021 Durham Castle Conference (remote)
2021 ESO GALSPEC (remote)
2021 A new window on the radio emission from galaxies, clusters and cosmic web (remote)
2021 DEX-VII (remote), prize for best student long talk
2020 DEX-VI (Durham University, UK), commended long talk
2019 DESI UK Meeting, spotlight talk, (UCL, UK)
2019 DEX-V, short talk, (Edinburgh University, UK)
2019 Durham Josephine Butler Conference, (Durham University, UK)
2019 Durham Castle Conference, (Durham University, UK)
Contributed science communicator talks/workshops: 2
2023 BIG (Thinktank Birmingham, UK), co-ran a workshop presenting 'Audio Universe' and 'Space Investigators: North East'
2019 Interact (UCLAN, UK), co-ran a workshop presenting 'Changing Cosmic Perceptions: an Astronomy-Art Project'
Invited seminars: 6
2024 University of St Andrews (UK)
2023 DES (remote)
2023 MPIA (remote)
2023 Lancaster University (UK)
2022 KASI (remote)
2022 Ohio State University (remote)
Seminars: 19
2024 Meru University of Science and Technology (Kenya, remote)
2023 NCRA (Pune, India)
2022 DAWN Cake Talk (Copenhagen, remote)
2022 University of Southampton (UK)
2022 CosKASI ECR colloquium (KASI South Korea, remote)
2022 ESO Hypatia Colloquium (remote)
2022 DESI Atlantic forum (remote)
2022 University of Oxford (remote)
2022 University of Warwick (remote)
2021 Leiden University (remote)
2021 Galaxies seminar, University of Cambridge (remote)
2021 Newcastle University (UK)
2021 Brown Bag Lunch Talk, MIT (remote)
2021 IoA Extragalactic group meeting, University of Cambridge (remote)
2021 DESI Atlantic forum (remote)
2021 DESI Pacific forum (remote)
2021 Friday Lunchtime Talk (Durham University, remote)
2020 Friday Lunchtime Talk (Durham University, UK)
2019 Friday Lunchtime Talk (Durham University, UK)
Poster presentations: 6
2022 Castle Conference (Durham University, UK)
2022 Quasars and Galaxies through Cosmic Time, (remote)
2021 European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting, (remote)
2019 Durham Josephine Butler Conference (UK)
2017 Undergraduate Research Scheme, Astronomy (University of Warwick, UK)
2016 Undergraduate Research Scheme, Particle Physics (University of Warwick, UK)
Locations of in person (red) and remote (blue) conference/seminar talks
Professional Responsibilities
2024 DESI journal review panel
2024 SOC member: 'DEX-XX', (Edinburgh, Durham, Newcastle, St Andrews, Lancaster)
2023 Lorentz Center meeting discussion co-chair: 'The importance of jet-induced feedback on galaxy scales'
2023- Scientific journal referee: AJ
2023- Scientific journal referee: APS
2023- Scientific journal referee: MNRAS
2023 NASA FINESST proposal referee
2023 NAM session co-organiser & chair: 'AGN demographics and evolution in the era of large-scale surveys' (Cardiff University)
2023 SOC member & best talk award panel: 'DEX-XIX', (Edinburgh, Durham, Newcastle, St Andrews, Lancaster)
2022 LOC member: 'What Dives the Growth of Black Holes?', (Durham University, Dartmouth University, Iceland)
2022 ESO VLT proposal reviewer
2021 ALMA proposal reviewer
Leadership Experience
2023-2024 Space Investigators project lead
2023-2024 Inclusive Futures Program (Newcastle University)
2023- DESI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee member, co-organiser of the DESI mentoring scheme
2022-2023 Journal Club co-organiser (Newcastle University)
2021-2022 President of University College Thorp Society (Durham University), organised a talk by Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
2021-2022 DESI Early Career Scientist (ECS) committee member
2020-2021 University College MCR Ball Vice Chair and Conference committee member (Durham University)
2020-2021 President of University College MCR (Durham University; College group of the year & student leadership award)
2020-2021 Physics Student Staff Representative (Durham University)
2020-2021 AGN Journal Club organiser (Durham University)
2019-2020 Academic Officer for University College MCR (Durham University)
2019-2020 First year PhD Astronomy Journal Club co-organiser (Durham University)
2018-2019 Vice President of Warwick Astronomy Society
2017-2018 Treasurer of Warwick Astronomy Society
2017-2018 Publicity Officer for Warwick Cocktail Society
2016-2017 Social Officer for Warwick Cocktail Society
Telescope proposals and observing experience
2024 DESI remote observer
2023 DESI remote observer
2022 ESO X-shooter, PI, Unveiling the nature of extremely red QSOs with X-shooter
2022 DESI remote observer
2021 DESI remote observer
2021 ESO X-shooter, PI, Unveiling the nature of red QSOs with X-shooter
2021 DESI remote observer
2020 DESI, PI, Observing the obscure: a DESI survey of dust reddened quasars
2020 GMRT observing
2019 GMRT, PI, Investigating the evolutionary scenario for red quasars using GMRT radio spectral energy distributions
Public Talks
Public talks: 20
2023 Reading Astronomical Society
2023 Sunderland Astronomical Society
2022 Durham Castle Sunday seminar (IWD special)
2022 Durham University Astronomy Society
2022 Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society (remote)
2022 Birmingham Astronomical Society (remote)
2021 IOP 'How to create an award winning poster', invited panelist (remote)
2021 Sunderland Astronomical Society (remote)
2021 Levelling Up : Aspire Higher Physics, Durham University (remote)
2021 Reading Astronomical Society (remote)
2021 Durham University Astronomy Society
2021 Durham Castle Sunday seminar
2020 Durham Castle Sunday seminar
2020 Durham Physics Society
2020 Warwick Astronomy Society
2019 Pint of Science Newcastle
2019 Birmingham Astronomical Society
2019 Durham Castle Sunday seminar
2018 Durham Castle Sunday seminar
2018 Warwick Astronomy Society
Teaching and Supervisory Roles
2024 Undergraduate summer project supervisor (Newcastle University)
2023-2024 DESI mentor (remote)
2023-2024 PGR mentor (Newcastle University)
2023 Undergraduate summer project supervisor (Newcastle University)
2022-2023 BSc third year project co-supervisor (Durham University)
2018-2021 First year undergrad Python demonstrator (Durham University)
2020-2021 Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative, Maths tutor (remote)
2020-2021 Advisory supervisor, MPhys research-project student (Durham University)
2019-2020 Advisory supervisor, MPhys research-project student (Durham University)
2019-2021 University College Postgrad mentor (Durham University)
2018-2019 Advisory supervisor, MPhys research-project student (Durham University)
Outreach Summary
2024 Skype a Scientist session (remote)
2024 Great North Museum: Hancock Easter activities, flash talks and 'Ask an Astronomer' session (Newcastle)
2024 Go Stargazing cruise on-board astronomer
2024 'I'm a Scientist, get me out of here' - online live chats with schools (remote)
2024 School STEM lecture (British Science Week, remote)
2024 School workshop as part of Spark outreach project (Newcastle)
2023 School STEM lecture (Wycombe)
2023 School STEM lecture (Henley)
2023 Skype a Scientist session (remote)
2023 School STEM lecture (remote)
2023 School STEM lecture (remote)
2023 School workshops as part of Spark outreach project (x3, Newcastle, Durham)
2023 Great North Museum: Hancock lates, Astronomy stand (Newcastle)
2023 Newcastle University WISDOM talk (Newcastle University)
2023 School STEM lecture (remote)
2023 School talk and workshop (Newcastle University)
2023 School STEM lecture for International Women's Day (remote)
2023 'I'm a Scientist, get me out of here' - online live chats with schools (remote, scientist of the week)
2023 Speaker at the Phizzi Earth and Space teacher conference, Life Centre (Newcastle)
2023 School STEM lecture (remote)
2022 Being Human Festival at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Astronomy stand (Newcastle)
2022 Celebrate Science (Durham University)
2022 World Space Week at the Great North Museum: Hancock (Newcastle)
2022 School STEM lecture (remote)
2022 School astronomy day (Durham)
2022 Great North Museum Astronomy day - workshop helper and flash talk speaker (Newcastle)
2022 'I'm a Scientist, get me out of here' - online live chats with schools (remote, winner of my zone, awarded £500)
2022 School astronomy talk (remote)
2022 DESI High, International Day of Women and Girls in Science special (remote), event lead and co-organiser
2022 'What is Space Really Like?' - school talk (remote)
2022 'Meet a Scientist' - school talk (remote)
2021 School STEM lecture (remote)
2021 School STEM lecture (Maidenhead)
2021 Year 5 space talk (remote)
2021 DESI High (noche de las estrellas, Mexico, remote)
2021 'A day in the life of an Astronomer', Year 5 school talk (remote)
2021 STEMFest in Space, talk, (remote)
2021 DESI High (Nepal, remote)
2021 Durham book festival: Little Read workshop, (pre-recorded)
2021- STEM ambassador, North East
2020 STEMFest in Space, workshop, (pre-recorded)
2020 Space challenge day (Durham University)
2019 Pint of Science presenter (Newcastle)
2019 School STEM lecture (Maidenhead)
2019 'Changing Cosmic Perceptions: An Exploration of our Universe', Astronomy-art-schools project (Durham University)
2019 Celebrate Science (Durham University)
2019 Schools Science Festival (Durham University)
2018 Celebrate Science (Durham University)
For more details see Outreach
Programming Languages
Python (PhD onwards)
R (Masters project)
C (University course)
C++ (Undergraduate summer project)
Full CV
CV_3page.pdf