Curriculum vitae
Education
PhD in Mathematics (October 2015 – December 2019).
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Supervisor: Dr Derek Kitson.
Thesis title: The rigidity of countable frameworks in normed spaces.
First class MSci Hons in Mathematics (October 2011 – July 2015).
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Dissertation title: Fourier analysis on locally compact abelian groups.
Dissertation supervisors: Professor Garth Dales and Dr Yemon Choi.
Employment and fellowships
University of Bristol (October 2022 – Present).
Research Fellow with the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.
Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) (May 2021 – July 2022).
Research Scientist with FWF-funded project Realizations of Rigid Graphs (project code P31888).
Project leader: Dr Georg Grasegger.
The Fields Institute (February 2021 – April 2021).
Postdoctoral Fellow with the Fields Institute thematic program Geometric Constraint Systems, Framework Rigidity, and Distance Geometry.
Program organizers: Professor Meera Sitharam, Dr Tony Nixon, Professor Pablo Parrilo, Professor Walter Whiteley and Professor Henry Wolkowicz.
Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) (July 2019 – January 2021).
Research Scientist with FWF-funded project Realizations of Rigid Graphs (project code P31888).
Project leader: Dr Georg Grasegger.
Teaching experience
Johannes Kepler University (October 2021 – February 2022).
Tutorial Teacher for the Institute for Analysis module Mathematics for AI 1.
Lancaster University (October 2015 – June 2019).
Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Mathematics and Statistics Department.
Lancaster University (October 2016 – December 2018).
Mathematics and Statistics Department outreach.
Honors, awards and grants
Heilbronn Focused Research Grant (2024). Grant for £5960 for the research project Intersections: Rigidity Theory Techniques for Erdős Distance Problems.
Heilbronn Focused Research Grant (2023). Grant for £7750 for the research project Applications of Tropical Geometry and Rigidity Theory in Algebraic Statistics.
Clay Mathematics Institute Travel Grant (2022). Grant for $550 USD.
Fields Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021). Grant for $15000 CAD.
Workshop, conference and seminar organisation
Intersections: Rigidity Theory Techniques for Erdős Distance Problems (focused research workshop) (August 2024).
Lead organiser with Dr Jonathan Passant.
University of Bristol, UK.
Combinatorics seminar (February 2024 – Present).
Seminar organiser.
University of Bristol, UK.
https://www.bristolmathsresearch.org/events/combinatorics/
Landscapes of Rigidity workshop (March 2024).
Lead organiser with Dr Elefteris Kastis.
To take place during the Rigidity and Flexibility Special Semester at RICAM, Linz, Austria.
https://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at/specsem/specsem2024/workshop1/
New Postdoc seminar (November 2023).
Seminar organiser.
University of Bristol, UK.
Applications of Tropical Geometry and Rigidity Theory in Algebraic Statistics (focused research workshop) (June 2023, with follow up sessions in November 2023 and January 2024).
Lead organiser with Dr James Maxwell.
University of Bristol, UK.
New Postdoc seminar (October – November 2022).
Seminar organiser.
University of Bristol, UK.