I am a Lecturer in Mathematics at Maynooth University. Up until Summer 2017 I was an Associate Professor in Mathematics at Wichita State University, Kansas, USA. I completed my PhD at the University of Oregon at Eugene, under the supervision of Professor Boris Botvinnik, and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at WWU Muenster, Germany, as well as Oregon State University in Corvallis. My interests are in Geometry, in particular the relationship between Curvature and Topology. My work so far has focused on Positive Scalar Curvature and especially understanding the topology of the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on a smooth manifold. More recently I have shifted my attention to analogous questions for positive Ricci curvature.