I am Reader in Computational Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Edinburgh, where I study the physics of living matter using coarse-grained computational methods.
My research focuses on active matter — biological and synthetic systems that consume energy to move and self-organise — with particular emphasis on active nematics, microbe motility, polymer dynamics, and soft condensed matter. My group develops mesoscale simulation tools to understand how fluid mechanics, confinement, and non-equilibrium dynamics shape the behaviour of complex biological materials.
I have served on the Institute of Physics Computational Physics Group committee since 2019, where I manage the Annual PhD Thesis Prize, and I sit on the Higgs Centre Management Committee at the University of Edinburgh. I have a longstanding interest in science communication, having written for the Financial Times as a British Science Association Media Fellow, and I regularly give public talks at events, such as Pint of Science and the Edinburgh Science Festival.short-wave and microwave radios.
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