Research

I am a Research Fellow in the Elementary Particle Physics group at Warwick.

My research base is primarily focused on projects within neutrino physics. I am involved in the T2K experiment, working on particle identification and reconstruction in the electromagnetic calorimeters of the ND280 near detector. I am also helping to develop novel liquid argon detectors for accelerator-based and astrophysical neutrinos, writing software tools for the simulation, characterization and data analysis of these detectors. As part of my research in double beta decay, I co-supervised a URSS project which developed the open source PEBBLE application for generating double beta decay events for use by detector simulation studies. Apart from detector studies, I am also building an interest in the phenomenology of neutrino mass, mixing and oscillations.

In my role as Physicist Programmer for the group, I support the computing needs of the group in both software and hardware. I take a broader interest in software development for particle physics, and contribute to the Geant4 toolkit for simulation of particle detectors. I also provide some guides for installing Geant4 and building applications on Windows.

My doctorate was on direct searches for particle dark matter, and I maintain an interest in this field with the publication of a number of papers on the phenomenology of detectors with directional sensitivity.

Teaching

I teach the MPAGS graduate course in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics during the Autumn Term. I also collaborate with Tom Latham in providing a graduate course in Linux and C++ programming. We provide a range of resources for students taking these courses together with hands on sessions introducing programming.

From 2008-2010 I was a tutor at the RAL HEP Summer School for UK postgraduates in experimental particle physics.

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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

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