I am an astrophysicist in my MPhys year at the University of Edinburgh. My current research focus is on modelling the observational signatures of Population III stars using high-resolution galaxy simulations; I am also the lead developer and maintainer of octavius.

• octavius: a high-performance simulation analysis toolkit capable of tackling next-generation simulations (currently working on a publication)
• Pop3: constructing photoionisation models of Population III stars with the Pop2Prime simulation
• Cepheids: a bespoke reduction, photometry and analysis pipeline to derive the distance to Andromeda from Cepheid variable stars
• Modelling and Visualisation: core simulation techniques, including Monte Carlo methods, cellular automata, and PDE solvers

• Forward modelling observational data
• Understanding galaxy formation and evolution
• Probing the cosmological model
• Astrostatistics
• Numerical methods and high-performance computing

In addition to my computational work I maintain a keen interest in theoretical astrophysics. Therefore, I am studying the following courses concurrently with my MPhys project:

• Theoretical Methods for Fusion and Astrophysical Plasma
• General Relativity
• Radiation Processes in Astrophysics

I am projected to graduate with first-class honours.