ABOUT ME
I obtained my undergraduate degree in my home country of New Zealand, before I moved to Brisbane, Australia, to complete my doctoral degree. I then spent several years working as a postdoctoral scholar in California, before starting as an assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke in late 2016. I moved to join the physics faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology in early 2019. From late 2022 onwards I have worked as a research scientist for Amazons Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, California.
I relish the sense of discovery that comes from undertaking new scientific research and am also an avid programmer. I greatly enjoy presenting my work in the form of talks, and partake in community outreach by performing science demonstrations for elementary school students.
Visiting Fellowship at Perimeter Institute
2017 - 2020
Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics
2017, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Sherman Fairchild Prize Postdoctoral Scholarship
2011 - 2014, California Institute of Technology
Dean's Award for Outstanding Thesis
2010, University of Queensland
AWARDS
Presentation of the Young Scientist Prize at CCP2017 in Paris
EDUCATION
2005, B.Sc.
The University of Auckland
EMPLOYMENT
2011 - 2014, Sherman Fairchild Prize Postdoctoral Scholar,
California Institute of Technology
2007, B.Sc. (Hons.) in Applied Mathematics
The University of Auckland
2010, P.hD. in Theoretical Physics
The University of Queensland
Thesis: "Foundations and Applications of Entanglement Renormalization"
2014 - 2016, Assistant Project Scientist
University of California, Irvine
2016 - 2019 Assistant Professor
2019 - 2022 Assistant Professor
2022 - current: Quantum Research Scientist