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I'm a research fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. I completed my PhD in the astrophysics of exoplanets at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in 2025.
My research focuses on the use of radial velocity observations to discover new exoplanets and to characterise the ones we have already found.
If you're interested in research collaborations or would like to chat about outreach and exoplanets, please get in touch.
About Me
About Me
I'm currently a research fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, where I spend half of my time on research and half on duties at Paranal Observatory.
For most of my PhD I was part of the exoplanets group at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, where I was supervised primarily by Dr Vincent Van Eylen. I also spent one year as a visiting student at the ESO headquarters in Germany, where I was supervised by Dr Louise Nielsen and Dr Michael Sterzik.
I completed my BSc in Physical Science at the University of Exeter in 2017, where I undertook a research project on the direct imaging of exoplanets supervised by Dr Sasha Hinkley. After my undergraduate degree, I trained as a secondary school science teacher and was awarded an Institute of Physics teaching scholarship. In 2019 I left teaching to undertake an MSc in Planetary Science at UCL, here my research focused on ground-based observations of transiting exoplanets, in particular of ultra-short period planets. My MSc was supervised primarily by Dr Giorgio Savini and additionally by Prof. Steve Fossey.
Research
Research
My research uses radial velocity (RV) observations from ground-based instruments to confirm the existence of newly-detected exoplanets and to better understand the ones we have already discovered. In particular, I focus on finding the masses of small planets to help us understand more about their composition.
Most recently, I have been working on analysing archival RV data in a homogenous way to enable demographics studies of the compositions of small exoplanets.
I'm also interested in efforts to improve our understanding of the impacts of stellar activity in Extreme-Precision RV (EPRV) observations, as well as the synergy between different observations methods, and how these can provide a much richer understanding of exoplanet systems.
A full list of my publiations is available on Google Scholar.
Outreach
Outreach
Following my Bachelors degree I initially trained as a physics-specialist science teacher. I worked for two years at a non-selective secondary school in the UK, where I taught science and maths to students aged 11 to 18. Whilst I ultimately chose to leave teaching to pursue my research goals, this experience was hugely beneficial to my development as a communicator.
During my PhD, I was involved in the Orbyts outreach programme for over 3 years. Orbyts is a multi-award-winning movement that partners researchers with schools to empower school students to undertake original science research. The goal of Orbyts is to address diversity issues in science and to support short-supply science teachers who have extensive time pressures. This is accomplished through a multi-term partnership that is proven to transform science inclusivity, inspire school students and teachers, and ignites scientists' leadership potential.
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