About Me

The Basics

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, working on a variety of usual transient phenomena! 

From 2019-2024 I was a DARK Research Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and before that I was working as a postdoctoral researcher with Mark Sullivan and the Soton Supernova Group at the University of Southampton. I studied for my Physics undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield in 2013, then went on to complete my PhD in astrophysics at the University of Warwick in 2017, supervised by Prof. Andrew Levan.

I work primarily with data from large surveys, such as the La Scilla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the extended-Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (ePESSTO) and the Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT). You can find out a little more about my research here.

I’m passionate about equality and diversity; I have previously worked as committee member of both the Southampton Women’s Physics Network and on departmental committees for Equality Diversity and Inclusion at Southampton and Copenhagen.

As I’m originally from Sheffield, on occasion, I will embrace my Yorkshire roots and forget to use “the” in conversation.

Additional Info 

I adore travel and the outdoors (a side effect of growing up near the peak district), and take every opportunity I can to go exploring, wherever I am in the world.

To be quite frank, I can’t sit still, so I do a ridiculous amount of sport. I’m somewhat of a running/swimming addict and I’m normally training for something!  But when I’m not running around like a lunatic, I spend my spare time reading. And baking, a lot. I make really good cakes.

Ooh, and coffee. I love coffee.