I am a Postdoctoral Research Assistant working on the ATLAS Experiment.
My research takes place in the context of the Oxford Standard Model and Beyond group, where I am on the Standard Model side of the agenda. My main analysis is a search in LHC data for evidence of special fluctuations of the gluon field called QCD instantons. These emerge in the Standard Model (due to the non-trivial topology of the QCD vacuum), but have never been observed. I am also involved in technical work for a subsystem of the Inner Detector of ATLAS called the SCT. With the SCT group, I am particularly interested in the effects of radiation damage sustained during Run 2 of the LHC on SCT performance.
I support the department's public outreach activities as a mentor in Masterclasses for school students, and as a contributor to Open Data projects, which hope to enable students to explore LHC data for themselves.