Education

2006-2010: D.Phil. in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Trinity College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Research project involving working with Dr. John Barnett on stratospheric and mesospheric processes using data from the HIRDLS instrument on NASA's Aura satellite, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

2005-2006: M.Sc. in Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices

University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK / Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Taught postgraduate programme, with one semester spent following courses at each of the two Universities and a summer placement in the photonics industry, working at CST Global. Included modules in Laser Physics, Modern Optics, Photonic Materials and Technical and Business Communications.

2001-2005: M.Sci. in Physics (with 2:1 Honours)

Collingwood College, University of Durham, Durham, UK

Final Year Project: Atmospheric Turbulence Measurements using SLODAR

Experimental and computational research project to measure the horizontal atmospheric turbulence at low levels, and to determine whether it was in agreement with Kolmogorov turbulence theory, with the aim of developing suitable adaptive optics for a free-space optical networking system (Supervisor: Dr. Gordon Love; published as Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5891, 589104 (2005))

Third Year Projects:

Nuclear Physics Laboratory: Compton Scattering
Experimental project to measure Compton Scattering effects in bulk materials using Caesium-137 gamma rays, and to compare measured effects to established theory.
Computing Laboratory: Simulation of Electron Transport in a Bulk Semiconductor
Computational project to model the behaviour of electrons in a bulk semiconductor using a Monte Carlo simulation, written in FORTRAN 90

1996-2001: Secondary Education

Beckfoot School, Wagon Lane, Bingley, Bradford, UK
A-level: General Studies (A), Mathematics (A), Physics (A), German (B).
AS-level: Further Mathematics (B)
GCSE: Ten, grades A*-C