I am a Clay Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian where I primarily collaborate with the group of Prof. Karin Öberg. Before this, I was a PostDoc in Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck's Astrochemisty group at Leiden Observatory. I was awarded my PhD from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds where I was supervised by Dr Catherine Walsh. I gained my BSc in Physics from the University of Aberdeen, my hometown, in 2016. I am interested in the formation, composition and detection of (exo)planets. My research uses both observations (e.g. with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ) and astrochemical modelling to unravel the structure and composition of protoplanetary disks. (header image credit: Credit: ESO/L. Calçada)
Research Highlights in the Press
The abundant methanol in an environment where it cannot form in-situ indicates the inheritance of ice from the earlier, colder stages in star formation.
Nature Astronomy paper detailing the detection of methanol in the HD100546 disk and press release from NOVA
The first detection of SiS in a disk may be tracing outflow shocks from a forming giant planet...
The paper led by C. Law
Press Release from NRAO