My main area of research is extreme laboratory astrophysics, which involves collaborations with CERN and Frascati. In my current role, I am responsible for co-ordinating experimental campaigns which aim to investigate the microphysical instabilities which underpin gamma-ray burst generation.
From 2022-2024, I worked as a PDRA in the plasma physics group at Imperial College London. In this role, I led a campaign to investigate the breakdown of the locally-constant crossed field approximation at the Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System at the University of Michigan (ZEUS). I also worked on commissioning photon sources (e.g. betatron radiation, bremsstrahlung and inverse Compton radiation) at the eSylos laser, Extreme Light Infrastructure, Hungary (ELI-ALPS).
I obtained my PhD from Imperial College London in 2023. My thesis research focussed on applying Bayesian inference to all-optical strong-field radiation reaction experiments.