Physics
My DPhil focused mainly on studying molecular magnets with muon spin rotation. In the nine months following it, I was fortunate to be funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Prize and then an STFC Science in Society Small Award to continue with a combination of my DPhil research, and outreach.
Academic
- A list of publications I have co-authored.
- Talks.
- A systematic study of a family of molecular magnets using muon-spin relaxation, my poster from ICMM2010, Beijing, China.
- The two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet CuF2(H2O)2(pyz) studied with muon spin rotation, my poster from the µSR08 conference in Tsukuba, Japan.
Software
- MµCalc, a Python-based dipole field simulator designed for Bayesian computation of sample properties based on muon stopping sites.
- SymGen, a simple Web application created to generate multiplication tables for groups of symmetry elements.
- FµFcalc, for interchanging bond lengths and oscillation frequencies in symmetric linear FµF.
Outreach
- I've been making a series of videos called Lab, Camera, Action! on all kinds of physics topics. Check them out!
- My STFC Science in Society grant allowed me to write up Accelerate!, a particle and accelerator physics show. I created a full resource pack including videos and cheat-sheets for anyone interested in putting on the show. In collaboration with SEPnet, the South-East Physics Network, the show will be available throughout the south-east of England. We’ve also had interest from other UK universities and even some abroad, so watch this space!
- I won FameLab UK 2012, a competition looking for snappy science talks which explain a concept in just three minutes. In the UK final, I talked about how quantum mechanics can help us to understand the colour of carrots.
- I helped to develop Fantastic Fields and Levitate!, classroom-based workshops about magnetism and superconductivity for Year 7 to 9 pupils.
