I am a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of University College. I have been Head of Teaching in the Department of Physics since September 2026.
Research interests
Astrophysical Fluids Dynamics, Planetary Dynamics
Selected publications
Turbulent damping of fast tidal oscillations by three-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection with a radiating free surface
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 549:3 (2026) stag909
On the energetics of a tidally oscillating convective flow
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 525:1 (2023) 508-526
The circularization timescales of late–type binary stars
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) (2021)
On a new formulation for energy transfer between convection and fast tides with application to giant planets and solar type stars
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical Society 503:4 (2021) 5789-5806