2022-Present: Royal Society University Research Fellow based in the Physics of Fluids & Soft Matter group of the University of Manchester.

2021: Post-Doctoral Research Associate working with Dr Josh McGraw and Dr Matthieu Labousse at the Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Microfluidique and the Gulliver Laboratory of the ESPCI Paris / PSL, France. Investigating the interaction between slender bodies and micro-droplets in confined environments.

2019-2020: Post-Doctoral Research Associate working with Dr Draga Pihler-Puzović at the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Manchester. Investigating viscous fingering instabilities in soft cells. Volumetric confinement of a soft subtrate means that flow-induced deformation near an injection port leads to bulging elsewhere, potentially impeding the escape of intruding fluid from the cell.

2016-2018: Post-Doctoral Research Associate working with Professor Dominic Vella at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. Investigating the elastic response of a sheet floating on a liquid bath subject to localised loading. This scenario is relevant across a spectrum of length scales, from mountain ranges that are supported by the Earth’s tectonic plates to frogs sitting on lily pads and AFM measurements of graphene membranes.

2014-2016: Post-Doctoral Research Associate working at BP Institute for Multiphase Flow at the University of Cambridge working with Dr. Jerome Neufeld and Professor Andy Woods. Investigating the influence of permeability on the propagation of fluid-driven fractures in rock formations, which has wide-ranging applications in oil and gas exploration and CO2 sequestration.

2014: David Crighton Fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

2010-2014: PhD at the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics under the supervision of Professor Tom Mullin. I developed a novel experimental apparatus to magnetically actuate spherical particles in a very viscous fluid in order to understand the locomotion of an elemental magneto-elastic swimmer. Constructed from an array of spheres connected by elastic struts, the swimmer buckled in a non-reciprocal fashion on application of an external field resulting in self-propulsion at low Reynolds number.

During my PhD, I also had the opportunity to conduct an internship at the Laboratory for Flow Control at the University of Hokkaido, Japan, with Associate Professor Yuji Tasaka.

2006-2010: Undergraduate degree in Physics with Study in Europe at the University of Manchester with an exchange year at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

During my degree I was the recipient of an Undergraduate Research Bursary from the Nuffield Foundation which enabled me to to spend a few months researching bubble propagation in tubes under the supervision of Professor Anne Juel of the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.