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:
Relevance of detail in basal topography for basal slipperiness inversions: A case study on Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
Frontiers in Earth Science
volume 6
(11 April 2018)
Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
Liquid Crystals
issue 3
volume 45
page 341-350
(19 February 2018)
Computing stationary solutions of the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation with deflated continuation
COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
volume 54
page 482-499
(January 2018)
Full text available
HIGHER-ORDER MOVING MESH METHODS FOR PDE-CONSTRAINED SHAPE OPTIMIZATION
SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
issue 4
volume 40
page A2356-A2382
(2018)
Full text available
Can Seismic Observations of Bed Conditions on Ice Streams Help Constrain Parameters in Ice Flow Models?
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
issue 11
volume 122
page 2269-2282
(1 November 2017)
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