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Curriculum Vitae

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Final Grade Awarded: 78% (I – First Class Honours).
Exchange year at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Courses in quantum mechanics, advanced classical mechanics including scattering problems and special relativity, Fourier transforms and differential equations, group theory, atomic and nuclear physics, electrodynamics, solid state physics, statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, differential geometry, general relativity, quantum many-body physics, and particle physics.
Laboratory work in quantum scattering problems such as the Ramsauer-Townsend effect and verification of Compton scattering; electronics projects such as TTL-logic-based circuit construction, measurement of Johnson-Nyquist noise. Computer lab work in numerical solution of differential equations; fast Fourier transforms; Monte-Carlo methods.
Final Year Project on ‘Black Hole Entropy and the Information Loss Paradox’. Awarded 81%.

A continuation of the work undertaken for my final year project, 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.

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 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 an advanced DAQ.

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.

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.

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.

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.