Things I Do.
The short version:
For the past year I have been an Ogden Isaac Research Fellow in the University of Southampton's Department of Physics and Astronomy. My research has focused on a software development and data curation project, with the aim to supply Machine Learning Algorithms with data-augmented training sets for upcoming sky-surveys. Some of my time has also been spent working with A-Level students on the Isaac Physics project.
In terms of skills, I consider myself at the moment to be a back-end Python engineer, writing code to perform high-load data analysis, load and extract relevant information from databases. To do this I have used SQL and C++ (and Cython) working alongside and integrated with my current project. I also consider myself a dab-hand at data visualisation, model fitting and report writing, having written a number of research papers and successful funding proposals, both as a PI and Co-I, authoring a thesis and making a plot or two along the way..
My Background
I hold a Masters in Physics from University of Sheffield (MPhys - First Class, 2012).
Following my time in Sheffield I moved to Southampton to do my PhD, supervised by Prof. Mark Sullivan. In August 2016 I submitted my Thesis, entitled "Explosions in the Sky: The Physics of Type Ia Supernovae from Large Astrophysical Datasets".
Tools
Python
- Python 2.7/Python 3+
- Numpy/Scipy
- python
unittest - Flask
- matplotlib
OS
- OSX/MacOS
- Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)
Generally Handy Things
- Git
- GitHub
- Jekyll
Contact Details.
