Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow
Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College
Personal Website:
+44 1865 270743
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent Publications:
Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional inverse problems
Journal of Computational Physics
volume 335
page 327-351
(15 April 2017)
From molecular to continuum modelling of bistable liquid crystal devices
Liquid Crystals
page 1-18
(22 February 2017)
Linear and nonlinear solvers for variational phase-field models of brittle fracture
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
issue 5
volume 109
page 648-667
(3 February 2017)
Combining deflation and nested iteration for computing multiple solutions of nonlinear variational problems
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
issue 1
volume 39
page B29-B52
(1 January 2017)
A preconditioner for the Ohta-Kawasaki equation
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
issue 1
volume 38
page 217-225
(1 January 2017)
Research Group:
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:
- 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