About me

Hi! I'm a Physics PhD student studying at Queen Mary University of London under Dr Abbey Waldron. I'm studing mysterious partciles called neutrinos as part of the MINERνA and DUNE experiments. If you don’t know what any of the physics jargon on this page means, take a look at the talks and presentations I’ve given, there’s a good chance I’ve discussed some of it before, or feel free to drop me an email, I love talking about exciting physics.

Outside of my PhD studies, I also work as a software developer, I have a particular interest in open-source software and open science, having contributed to several widely used Open-Source scientific software, see my CV if you wanna know more about my skills and experiences.

MINERνA experiment

- Data Preservation: I have worked on the data preservation effort at MINERνA; working to ensure the medium to long term usability and utility of MINERνA data for the wider particle physics community. I extended existing data preservation software to enable new analyses with MINERνA data

- Analysis: I am working on an analysis of muon neutrino inclusive scattering across the different nuclear targets in MINERvA. The objective is to contribute to advancing our understanding of how various nuclear environments influence neutrino interactions and our ability to observe them. Knowing more about how neutrinos behave has a beneficial effect all across the field of neutrino physics and even beyond.

DUNE experiment

- 2x2: I am working on the 2x2 near-detector demonstrator at DUNE. The 2x2 LArTPC modules have recently been constructed at the University of Bern and shipped to Fermilab, where they will sit in the NuMI beamline, taking the first neutrino beam LArTPC data at DUNE. I work on the installation and testing of these modules, as well as DAQ software integration and development.

This website serves as both a professional website and an avocational blog and is very much a work in progress, if you notice anything broken let me know

CV

A pdf version of this CV can be downloaded here (Last Updated: 5/June/2023)

Education

  1. PhD in Physics

    Queen Mary University of London, 2022-Present
  2. MSc in Physics

    King's College London, 2019-2021
  3. BSc in Physics

    Durham University, 2016-2019

Experience

  1. Computer Programmer

    PPCL, Sep 2023 — Present
  2. Module Demonstrator

    Queen Mary University of London, Jan 2023 - Present
  3. Software Engineer

    Siemens Industry Software, Jan 2022 — Sep 2022
  4. Open-Source contributor

    2021 — Present

Teaching

  1. Module Demonstration

    Queen Mary University of London, Jan 2023 — Present

    Modules demonstrated:

    - SPA4601 - Professional Skills for Scientists

    - Assisted in teaching beginner level Python to 1st year physics and chemisty students

    - SPA5131 - Practical Techniques for Data Science

    - Assited in teaching beginner level data science techniques in R and Python to 2rd year physics students

Publications

2023

S. Henry, H.Su et al. (The MINERvA Collaboration) (2023). "Measurement of Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Sections at Low Momentum Transfer"

A. Olivier, T. Cai et al. (The MINERvA Collaboration) (2023). "Measurement of the Multi-Neutron ν¯µ Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon"

2022

Astropy Collaboration et al. (2022). "The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package." The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2).

Talks

Click here to see a map of everywhere I've given a talk!