Curriculum Vitae

Positions Held:

2008-10:	Experienced Researcher (Postdoc), Marie Curie RTN: CONSTELLATION.
	School of Physics, University of Exeter, Advisor: Prof. M. McCaughrean.
2008-08:	Postdoc, HEA Division, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Advisor: Dr. S. Wolk.

Education:

Dec. 2007:	PhD, University College Dublin, The Evolution of Circumstellar Material around Low Mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars.
2004-07:	Predoctoral Fellow at SAO, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
2002-07:	PhD candidate at University College Dublin.
1998-02:	BSc.(Hons) 1st Class: Experimental Physics, Mathematical Physics. National University of Ireland Maynooth. 1st place in Mathematical Physics.

Awards:

2004-07:	Predoctoral Fellowship Award from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
2003:	Discover Science Participant, NASA KSC, with Project Emerald program.
2002-04:	Irish Research Council for Science Engineering & Technology Postgraduate Scholarship.
2001:	Stagiare ESA ESTEC: Intern, Ulysses Mission, Solar System Division, Space Science Dept.

Teaching Experience:

2000-01:	Demonstrator in undergraduate laboratories.
2001:	Taught Introductory Physics to senior secondary school students.
2002-03:	Demonstrator to 2nd & 3rd year Physics for Engineers Labs.
2003:	Demonstrator of 1st year physics labs for nurses.
2008:	Demonstrator to 1st year Astrophysics labs, including teaching students to use IRAF, IDL.

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