Employment:
2024-current: Professor at Heriot-Watt University
2018-2024: Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University
2015-2018: Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University
2013-2015: Research Fellow at University of Oxford
2009-2013: Postdoc with Professor Sergei Gukov at the California Instiute of Technology
2009: PhD under supervision of Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf at the University of Amsterdam
Grants and Prizes:
2024: Co-I on CDT in AGQ
2018: LMS Anne Bennet Prize
2017-2024: Royal Society Research Fellows Enhancement Award
2013-2018: Royal Society Research Fellows Enhancement Award
2013-2022: Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
2009-2013: NWO Rubicon Fellowship
Career breaks:
2019-2021: Medical Leave
2014-2015: Maternity Leave
2011-2012: Maternity Leave
Teaching:
PhD students: Omar Kidwai (graduated 2018), Philipp Rüter (graduated 2022), Subrabalan Murugesan (current), Loïc Bramley (current, together with Professor Tudor Dimofte).
Undergraduate courses: Maths for Scientists, Abstract Algebra A. Graduate courses: Geometry of Gauge Fields, GlaMS Examples Seminar.
Lectures at various PhD schools, including: Pre-String-Maths summer school, Galileo Galilei training week on BPS dynamics and Quantum Mathematics, Les Houches School on Quantum Geometry.
Organisation:
Co-organiser of String-Math 2026 in Edinburgh.
Management team of the CDT in AGQ, 2024 - now.
GRIFT group organiser (seminars, weekly meetings and retreats), 2022 - now.
Co-organiser of the Highland Winter Retreat on Physical Mathematics, 2024.
Management team of the GlaMS PhD school, 2021 - 2024.
Director of Educational Outreach, 2017 - 2019.
EMPG seminar organiser, 2017 - 2018.
Organiser of the 2017 workshop Quantum Fields, Knots and Integrable Systems.