Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

2025 – present

Principal Research Fellow

University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences

Permanent, research-only (equivalent to Associate Professor). Member of LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2018. Member of LISA Consortium since 2021.

2022 – 2025

Senior Research Fellow

University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences

2021 – 2022

Senior Scientist

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

2017 – 2021

Junior Scientist / Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

2014 – 2017

Postdoctoral Researcher

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

2012 – 2014

CITA National Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Guelph, Department of Physics, Canada

Adviser: Luis Lehner

Education

2012

Ph.D. in Physics

University of Chicago

Thesis: Nonlinear Backreaction in Cosmology. Adviser: Robert M. Wald.

2006

S.M. in Physical Sciences

University of Chicago

2005

Honours B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics with High Distinction

University of Toronto (Trinity College)

Funding

Grants and Fellowships

  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2024–2028) AI-Driven Inference for Gravitational Waves: Accelerating Discoveries in Fundamental Physics. Amount: £1,522,003. Role: Fellow.

  • STFC Gravitational Waves Consolidated Grant (2025–2028) Precision Gravity with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Amount: £363,058. Role: Project co-Lead.

  • Nottingham Research Fellowship (2022–2025) Black holes, gravitational waves, and machine learning probes. Amount: £221,500 (salary + £75,000 research funds, linked to permanent position). Role: Fellow.

Supervised Fellowships

  • 1851 Research Fellowship (2025–2028) Fellow: Dr Matthew Mould. Uncovering black-hole binary origins with gravitational waves and machine learning. Amount: £236,050.

Lecture Series & Schools

  • Kavli-Villum Summer School on Gravitational Waves, Corfu, Greece (2023) Lecturer, “Machine Learning for Gravitational Waves”
  • LISA Data Analysis: From Classical Methods to Machine Learning, Toulouse, France (2022) Lecturer, “GW Parameter Estimation with Bayesian Machine Learning”
  • IMPRS Course on Statistics for GW Astronomy, AEI (2021) Lecturer, machine learning component
  • Numerical Methods in Gravity and Holography, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2017) Lecturer, “Stability of Gravitational Systems on Bounded Domains”

Conference Organizing

  • GWFreeride Workshop, Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Italy (2026)
  • GW:UK, University of Nottingham (2026)
  • Nonlinear Black Hole Perturbation Theory, University of Nottingham (2025)
  • Tales of Gravity, University of Nottingham (2025)
  • 26th Midwest Relativity Meeting, Perimeter Institute (2016)

Publications

See the Publications page for a full list and highlighted papers.

Presentations

Over 80 research talks, including more than 50 invited presentations. See the Talks page for selected recordings, or the CV PDF for the full list.