Employment status

2011- Proleptic lecturer at the University of Exeter

2009-2011 Theoretical postdoctoral fellow at MPE (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

2006-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter

2003 - 2006 PhD, University of St. Andrews

Research Interests

  • The formation and properties of molecular clouds

  • Galactic structure

  • Stellar feedback in galaxies

    • Awards/ Grants

    2011 - Awarded 5 year €1million ERC starting grant for project 'LOCALSTAR'

    2011 - ISM DFG grant awarded jointly with E. Schinnerer

    2007 - HPC-Europa award

    Conference organisation

    SOC member for ‘IAU Symposium 270: Computational star formation’, Barcelona

    Organising committee member for ‘Puzzles of galactic nuclei’ workshop, MPE, June 2010

    Invited Conference Talks

  • Galactic Star Formation, August 2012 (review)

  • Gas flows in Galaxies, May Symposium, StScI, May 2012

  • 5th Zermatt ISM Symposium, September 2010 (review)

  • IAU Symposium 270: Computational star formation, Barcelona, June 2010 (review)

  • ‘Angular momentum transport in accretion discs’, IoA, September 2009

  • ‘PEARLS 09: Spiral arm substructure in nearby galaxies’, STScI, September 2009

  • 'Next generation of computational models of baryonic physics in galaxy formation: from protostellar cores to disk

    galaxy formation', Zurich, September 2007

    • Non-academic achievements

    I have appeared 4 times on the popular UK quiz show Countdown.

    I completed an ambition to do a parachute jump.