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Curriculum Vitae

Education: #

MSt Philosophy of Physics (University of Oxford) (2025–present): #

  • In progress.

BA Theoretical Physics (Trinity College Dublin) (2021–2025): #

  • Grade: 78% (I).
  • Thesis Title: Black Hole Entropy and the Information Loss Paradox.
  • Thesis Advisor: Dr. Manya Sahni O'Hara

Research Experience: #

Black Hole Entropy in the Path Integral Formalism (Hamilton Trust) (May–June 2025): #

  • A continuation of the work undertaken for my final year thesis, supervised by Dr. Manya Sahni O'Hara.
  • Involved research in advanced quantum mechanics including the path integral formalism, and modern methods for finding quantum corrections to black hole entropy, also using knowledge of functional analysis from previous research.

Liquid Xenon Student Research Assistant (TRIUMF) (May–August 2024): #

  • An applied physics/electronics/simulations project at the TRIUMF particle accelerator laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, supervised by Dr. Chloé Malbrunot.
  • Collaborative project which involved working hands-on with electronics to build a purity monitor for LXe (liquid xenon), and to perform computer simulations using ROOT and Garfield++ for the prototype, as well as theoretical calculations. I was also involved in the hardware and software setup of a Data Acquisition Unit.
  • Contributions used in LoLX, nEXO, and DUNE.

Investigation Into On-the-fly Optimization of the Hubbard Parameter in DFT$+U$ (Hamilton Trust) (May–July 2023): #

  • A theoretical/computational condensed matter physics project at Trinity College, Dublin, supervised by Dr. David D. O'Regan.
  • I gained experience with Density Functional Theory and implementing optimization algorithms (such as gradient descent), Python and Fortran and further experience with standard UNIX tools like SSH, Git, and Emacs, and HPC-specific software like the Slurm workload manager.

Education Experience: #

Instructor at the Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland (CTYI) (February 2025–Present): #

  • I have extensive experience teaching children (8–12 years old) on subjects including experimental physics, engineering, and optics. I have designed and delivered a short course on particle physics for the same age group.

Web Experience: #

Website Administrator (Self-Managed) (July 2024–Present): #

  • I currently administrate my personal blog as well as the website for the band LIJ (lij.ie).
  • On my personal blog I write about the philosophy of science. I am also an avid writer of fiction.
  • Experience with Wordpress, but presently using the Hugo framework in conjunction with custom HTML and CSS.

VPN Administrator (TCD Netsoc) (September 2022–April 2024): #

  • Involved ground-up knowledge of UNIX-based systems and administration of a LAMP environment for the web frontend, as well as providing technical support to users.

References: Available on request.