Updates
Jul 2026 TALK
Gave an invited seminar, "The Tide is Turning: Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in Third-Generation Detectors," at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam.
Jun 2026 TALK
Gave a talk, "Assessing and Improving the Spin-Induced Quadrupole Universal Relation for Spinning Binary Neutron Stars," at the Einstein Telescope Symposium, Aachen.
May 2026 PUBLICATION
Co-authored the GWTC-5.0 gravitational-wave transient catalog release and accompanying open data release, with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. ↗ arXiv:2605.27223
May 2026 OUTREACH
Coordinated outreach for Potsdam Day of Science.
Apr 2026 TEACHING
Started lecturing Introduction to Python for Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam. ↗ Course materials
Feb 2026 PUBLICATION
Published "Investigating the impact of quasi-universal relations on neutron star constraints in third-generation detectors" as first author. ↗ arXiv:2602.14659
Oct 2025 TEACHING
Started lecturing Science Communication for Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam.
Jun 2025 TALK
Gave a talk, "Investigating the impact of quasi-universal relations on neutron star constraints," at GR-Amaldi, Glasgow.
Apr 2025 TEACHING
Led the "Staying Up to Date" journal club seminar at the University of Potsdam.
Apr 2025 TEACHING
Demonstrated Introduction to C++ at the University of Potsdam.
Apr 2025 TEACHING
Lectured Statistical Power: Understanding the Universe with Bayesian Analysis at the University of Potsdam.
Mar 2025 CAREER
Started as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universität Potsdam, working with Tim Dietrich.
Mar 2025 CAREER
Completed my PhD in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.
Jul 2024 PUBLICATION
Published "Phenomenological model of gravitational self-force enhanced tides in inspiralling binary neutron stars" in Phys. Rev. D as first author. ↗ arXiv:2407.08538
Apr 2024 PUBLICATION
Co-authored the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA discovery paper for GW230529, a compact object-neutron star coalescence. ↗ arXiv:2404.04248
Mar 2024 TALK
Presented a poster, "PhenomGSF: A phenomenological model of GSF tides for inspiralling binary neutron stars with unequal masses," at the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Meeting, Louisiana State University.
Dec 2023 PUBLICATION
Co-authored "Accelerated parameter estimation in Bilby with relative binning." ↗ arXiv:2312.06009
Nov 2023 TALK
Gave a talk, "Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars inspirals with 3G gravitational-wave detectors," at the Royal Astronomical Society.
Oct 2023 OUTREACH
Gave an invited seminar, "Star Warps: Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars," to the Cardiff Astronomical Society.
Sep 2023 OUTREACH
Ran a stargazing workshop at the London Science Museum's Stargazing Lates.
Jan 2023 SERVICE
Became an LVK internal reviewer (NRTidalv3 waveform code and documentation, Bilby O4 parameter estimation) and a Physical Review D referee.
Nov 2022 TALK
Gave a talk at SPINS UK, Jodrell Bank.
Oct 2022 OUTREACH
Gave an invited talk, "From Sunset to Sunrise," at Be Festival, Birmingham.
Jun 2022 TALK
Gave an invited seminar at Pulsar Coffee, University of Oxford.
Apr 2022 PUBLICATION
Co-authored "The last three years: multiband gravitational-wave observations of stellar-mass binary black holes." ↗ arXiv:2204.03423
Apr 2022 TALK
Gave a talk at BritGrav, University of Glasgow.
Apr 2022 TALK
Gave a seminar, "Picking up Good Vibrations: Dynamical tides in binary neutron star waveforms," at the University of Birmingham.
Mar 2022 PUBLICATION
Published "Prospects for distinguishing dynamical tides in inspiralling binary neutron stars with third generation gravitational-wave detectors" in Phys. Rev. D as first author. ↗ arXiv:2203.00623
Jan 2022 SERVICE
Became organiser of the GW Journal Club.
Nov 2021 PUBLICATION
Co-authored GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run. ↗ arXiv:2111.03606
Nov 2021 OUTREACH
Gave a seminar, "Aliens, Galaxies and the Big Bang: Introducing the James Webb Space Telescope," at Astronomy in the City, University of Birmingham.
Sep 2021 PUBLICATION
Co-authored "Impact of Dynamical Tides on the Reconstruction of the Neutron Star Equation of State," published in Phys. Rev. Lett. ↗ arXiv:2109.07566
Sep 2021 TALK
Presented a poster, "Measuring the f-mode frequency in inspiralling binary neutron stars with third generation gravitational-wave detectors," at the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Meeting (virtual).
Jan 2021 OUTREACH
Started as a Planetarium Presenter at the University of Birmingham, running portable dome shows for Astronomy in the City.
Jan 2018 OUTREACH
Worked as a full-time Planetarium Presenter and Science Communicator at Glasgow Science Centre.