Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Undergraduate Theoretical Physics at Trinity College, Dublin (2021–2025):

• Currently undertaking my Capstone project on the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes and the consequent black hole information paradox
• Courses in quantum mechanics, advanced classical mechanics including scattering problems and relativity, Fourier transforms and differential equations, group theory, atomic and nuclear physics, electrodynamics, solid state physics, statistical mechanics, etc.
• 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.

Research Experience:

Liquid Xenon Student Research Assistant at 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 involves 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.
• Awarded an Honourable Mention for a site-wide talk on my work.

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.
• Awarded Best Presentation for a poster on my work.

Measurement of $\mathrm{PM}_{10}$ in Major Cities Using Satellite False-Colour Imagery (September–May 2017):

• This was an electronics/programming project undertaken in secondary school and involved running code on the International Space Station which would periodically take infrared photographs of the Earth's surface in order to detect air pollution. It was awarded 'Highly Commended' at the BT Young Scientists' Exhibition.

Other Skills and Experience:

Virtual Private Network / Website Systems Administrator: During my second year I worked as the system administrator for a VPN run by a student society at Trinity College. This involved remote installation and maintenance of a Debian environment, maintenance of specialized user-registration software, and patient technical support for end-users.

Programming Experience: I have many years' experience with Python, C++ and shell-scripting languages such as Bash, and less mature experience with Fortran and two LISP dialects (Emacs and Common), and I have written small personal utilities in C.

Hobbies: I am also an accomplished and committed musician and writer, and a member of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity, where I have delivered speeches which often included communication of difficult topics in mathematics and science to a popular audience.

References available upon request.