I’m an astrophysicist and instrumentation scientist working on the Comet Interceptor mission within the space instrumentation group. My work focuses on the development, verification, and calibration of optical and spectroscopic instruments for both space missions and ground-based telescopes.
Before joining Oxford, I completed my PhD at UCL (2020–2024), where aligned, integrated and tested the Wide Field Corrector for the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) and researched high-redshift galaxies to help understand cosmic reionisation. I then went on to become the lead system verification scientist for 4MOST (www.4most.eu) at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP, 2024–2025), leading testing in Europe and in Chile at ESO’s Paranal Observatory.