Career:
Aug 2017 - present: Professor of Scientific Computing, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh (Reader Aug 2020 - Jul 2024; Lecturer Aug 2017 - Jul 2020)
Jan 2024 - present: Director of Research, School of Mathematics
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020: Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, London
Aug 2017 - May 2018: EPSRC Fellow
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017: Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017: EPSRC Fellow
Aug 2013 - Apr 2015: Whittaker Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, University of Oxford
Oct 2009 - Mar 2013: DPhil Student in Numerical Analysis (supervised by Prof. Andy Wathen), Mathematical Institute and Worcester College, University of Oxford
Sep 2012 - Nov 2012: ESF Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
Awards:
Aug 2024: Awarded EPSRC Standard Grant (3 years), 'Randomized Linear Algebra for Optimisation and Control of PDEs' (Project Lead; with Stefan Güttel, University of Manchester)
Aug 2024: Awarded ICMS Workshop Grant
2023/2022/2016: Obtained Exceptional Performance Awards from Universities of Edinburgh (x2) and Kent
Dec 2021: Successful proposal to host BIRS Workshop 'New Directions in Applied Linear Algebra' at Banff International Research Station, Canada (with Jennifer Pestana, David Silvester, Valeria Simoncini)
Dec 2018: Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Award (3 years), 'Modern Linear Algebra for PDE-Constrained Optimisation Models for Huge-Scale Data Analysis'
Jul 2018: Awarded Fellowship of The Alan Turing Institute, London
Nov 2016: Awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
Feb 2016: University of Kent Faculty of Sciences Prize for Early Career Research
Jun 2015: 17th IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis - awarded Second Prize
Feb 2015: Awarded EPSRC Fellowship (3 years), 'Fast Solvers for Real-World PDE-Constrained Optimization'
Sep 2013: Best contribution at conference Domain Decomposition Methods for Optimization with PDE Constraints, for talk 'Preconditioned Iterative Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization'
Jul 2013: Certificate from SIAM for 'outstanding contribution' at 25th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, for talk 'Fast Iterative Solution of PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems'
Jun 2012: Awarded ESF Exchange Grant from European Science Foundation, to visit Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg (under the OPTPDE scheme)
May 2012: Awarded EPSRC Doctoral Prize for achievements as a DPhil student
Jul 2011: Certificate from SIAM for 'outstanding contribution' at 24th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, for talk 'Fast Iterative Solvers for Convection-Diffusion Control Problems'
Also awarded various smaller grants from LMS, IMA, SIAM, Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust, the Heilbronn Institute, and research councils in Ireland and Italy, EPSRC studentships for my MSc and DPhil studies, industrial funding for my MSc dissertation, and a Clothworker's Scholarship from St. Catherine's College, Oxford.