Research Fellow, St Andrews
From 2020 to 2025, I was a Research Fellow in St Andrews. In that time, my work primarly focused on solar coronal heating and global modelling of the coronal magnetic field. My position was funded by Consolidated Grants from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
For two academic years, from 2023 to 2025, I convened the solar & magnetospheric seminar series.
Doctoral work
In St Andrews, I undertook a PhD in Applied Mathematics, specializing in solar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In 2020, I submitted and defended my thesis, and later graduated.
Throughout the course of my PhD, I was supervised by Prof. Alan Hood and Prof. Clare Parnell. My doctoral research was chiefly concerned with the solar coronal heating problem, as was intended in the original proposal, but I also developed an interest in magnetic reconnection.
As a PhD student, I was a Carnegie Scholar. As such, I benefited from the support, financial and otherwise, of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, for which I remain grateful.
Undergraduate studies
As an undergraduate, I was privileged to study Mathematics in St Andrews. While doing so, my interests in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and in solar physics began with my final-year Honours dissertation, which was supervised by Prof. Thomas Neukirch.
During that time, my first experience of academic research came when I took part in the School's Summer Undergraduate Research Programme.
Then, I modelled interactions between hosts and parasitoids with Prof. Mark Chaplain