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 simulations; I am also the lead developer and maintainer of octavius.

• octavius: a high-performance, hybrid-parallel analysis toolkit for analysing next-generation cosmological simulations. An associated paper is currently in preprint
• pop3: constructing photoionisation models of Population III stars with Cloudy and the Pop2Prime simulation
• Cepheids: a bespoke hierarchical Bayesian MCMC analysis pipeline (including reduction and photometry), used 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.