Status:
Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College
Personal website:
+44 1865 270743
ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-7060
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent Publications:
Control of bifurcation structures using shape optimization
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
volume abs/2105.14884
(1 January 2021)
Finite element approximation and preconditioning for anisothermal flow of implicitly-constituted non-Newtonian fluids
Mathematics of Computation
(23 November 2021)
Accurate numerical simulation of electrodiffusion and water movement in brain tissue
Mathematical Medicine and Biology
volume abs/2102.02539
(17 November 2021)
Irksome: automating Runge–Kutta time-stepping for finite element methods
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
issue 4
volume 47
(28 September 2021)
Multilevel quasi Monte Carlo methods for elliptic PDEs with random field coefficients via fast white noise sampling
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
issue 4
volume 43
page A2840-A2868
(9 August 2021)
Research interests:
- The numerical solution of differential equations.
- Adaptive discretisations of PDEs.
- Adjoints and PDE-constrained optimisation problems.
- Bifurcation analysis of nonlinear PDEs.
Teaching:
Lecturing:
- Practical Numerical Analysis, MT 2014
- Python in Scientific Computing, TT 2014-2017
- Solving PDEs on Supercomputers, TT 2015-2016
- Finite Element Methods for PDEs, HT 2017
Tutoring:
- Numerical Analysis, HT 2014
- Constructive Mathematics, TT 2014
- Optimisation, TT 2014
- Introduction to University Level Mathematics, MT 2016
- Geometry, MT 2016
- Differential Equations I, MT 2016
Prizes, awards, and scholarships:
- LMS Whitehead Prize, 2021
- Broyden Prize in Optimisation, 2021
- Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, 2015
- IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, second place, 2015
- EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship, 2013
- Outstanding Thesis award from the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2010
- Represented the UK in the PhD Olympiad of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, 2010
- Core member of team winning the Imperial College Research Excellence Award, 2010
- Janet Watson Memorial Prize as the best PhD student in the department in 2009
- Janet Watson Doctoral Scholarship, 2006
- Hamilton Prize, Royal Irish Academy, 2006
- Blayney Exhibition, National University of Ireland, 2006