I work on the SNO+ experiment, located 2km underground at SNOLAB, designed primarily to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The detection of this decay would imply that neutrinos are Majorana particles i.e their own antiparticles, and would be a violation of total lepton number conservation, a key ingredient in leptogenesis theories.
My work on the experiment has been on developing algorithms for position and direction reconstruction, as well as signal extraction through likelihood fitting for the double beta analysis. I am also convener of the simulation and analysis software for the experiment.
My PhD was also in experimental neutrino physics, on the T2K experiment, where I performed Bayesian analyses of near detector data to constrain systematic uncertainties for the oscillation analysis. During this time I also worked on the high-pressure gas time projection chamber (HPgTPC), a prototype detector testing technologies for future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
At Oxford, I tutor undergraduate physics students in Mansfield College, and help in the undergraduate nuclear teaching labs.