I am an Early-Career OxCHEDS Fellow working in the Atomic and Laser Physics Department at the University of Oxford. My research concerns the dynamic behaviour of crystalline matter compressed the multimillion-atmosphere pressure conditions at ultrahigh strain rates. I study this behaviour using a combination of femtosecond x-ray diffraction experiments and large-scale atomistic simulations. My current interests include plastic deformation, phase transitions, and temperature diagnosis under extreme loading conditions.
I am the Academic Coordinator for the Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS), a framework that facilitates joint Oxford-AWE research efforts into fundamental physics under extreme thermodynamic conditions. Research themes in OxCHEDS include laboratory astrophysics, inertial fusion energy, fundamental behaviour of warm dense matter, and dynamic compression; more can be learnt about the research carried out at OxCHEDS here.
I am also a Senior Laboratory Demonstrator in the first-year General Physics undergraduate teaching laboratory. I have previously taught first- and second-year Mathematics, Electromagnetism and Thermal Physics at St Hilda's College and New College as a Stipendiary Lecturer.
In 2025, I was awarded the European XFEL Young Scientist Award.