Curriculum Vitae
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.