Status:
Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow
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:
An augmented Lagrangian preconditioner for the 3D stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
issue 5
volume 41
page A3073–A3096-
(8 October 2019)
Automated adjoints of coupled PDE-ODE systems
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
issue 3
volume 41
page C219-C244
(6 June 2019)
Deflation for semismooth equations
Optimization Methods and Software
(16 May 2019)
Efficient white noise sampling and coupling for multilevel Monte Carlo
with non-nested meshes
SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification
issue 4
volume 6
page 1630-1655
(20 November 2018)
Higher-order moving mesh methods for PDE-constrained shape optimization
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
issue 4
volume 40
page A2356–A2382-
(2 August 2018)
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