About Me
I grew up in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied for my Honours and Masters at the University of Sydney. I studied abroad at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2017 I completed my DPhil in Astrophysics at Balliol College, Oxford. I'm vegetarian, keen on Python, Bayes, cycling, coffee, and Earl Grey. I was a member of the winning Balliol College team in the 2016-17 series of University Challenge on BBC2, with the wonderful Joey Goldman, Freddy Potts, and Jacob Lloyd.
Sometimes I write: see my latest piece in The Monthly, about the possible discovery of phosphine on Venus, which has been included in . In the Oxonian Review, check out my short story The Marlborough Arms and my review of Tim Winton's Island Home. For the Cooper Square Review I wrote a couple of pieces and a review of David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth.
Outside of physics, I'm interested in history and critical understandings of physics and astronomy. We have to situate our science in a social and historical context, and understand how crucial the work of once-marginalized figures has been to this heritage. You may like this IWD 2017 piece about Ruby Payne-Scott, the Australian pioneer of radio interferometry, and I've digitized and hosted Elizabeth Alexander's original report on her radio observations of the Sun (explaining the "Norfolk Island Effect").
