Research

My research interests include:

  • Understanding how present-day galaxy components (e.g. the intra-halo light) trace unobservale phenomena (e.g. dark matter distributions and assembly histories).
  • The galaxy-halo connection.
  • Placing the Milky Way's formation in a cosmological context.

My PhD research has focused on analysing the formation of dynamically-distinct stellar components in the EAGLE simulations. You can access my papers here.

Research highlights:

Identifying the discs, bulges, and intra-halo light of simulated galaxies through structural decomposition. Galaxy decomposition flowchart.

Milky Way-mass disc galaxies with low-mass stellar haloes have diverse merger histories. Merger example.

CV

You can access a copy of my CV here.

About Me

I was born and raised in Fife, Scotland (hilly, cold; see left), before moving to Perth, Australia (flat, hot; see right). After a 3 year stint as a statistician, I commenced a Masters of Astrophysics at ICRAR in 2019. In 2021, I started my PhD in the Computational Theory group at ICRAR, and am currently appling for postdoc positions.

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Alongside research, I enjoy participating in outreach initiatives and have contributed as an author and editor for astrobites. I also occasionally use matplotlib to take artistic liberties with astronomy-themed album covers (suggestions always welcome).

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