Employment and positions held:

Sept. 2015 - Present, Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics

Sept. 2010 - Feb. 2016 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow

April / May 2010 and Jan / Feb. 2012, Visiting researcher at the Low Temperature Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, Aalto University, Finland.

May 2003 - Sept. 2010, Research Associate, Condensed Matter Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

Education:

Sept. 1999 - May 2003: Ph.D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

Thesis title: "Textures, vortices and persistent currents in a slab of superfluid 3He-A"

Sept. 1995 - July 1999: M.Phys.(Hons) Physics, First Class, University of Manchester

My research interests are focussed on the helium superfluids (⁴He and ³He). These are liquids that at sufficiently low temperatures display quantum phenomena on macroscopic scales. My main achievements have been in performing novel experiments on quantum turbulence in superfluid ⁴He at very low temperatures and also in understanding the nature of quantized vortices and other topological defects in confined superfluid ³He-A.

I was awarded an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship which was used to build a new state-of-the-art rotating dilution refrigerator. This instrument is currently being used for investigating turbulent phenomena in pure superfluid ⁴He in the zero temperature limit. It was also used to search for macroscopic quantum phenomena in rotating solid ⁴He.