I'm a fourth year DPhil student at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and a member of Christ Church, Oxford.

I am supervised by Dr. Andrei Starinets and my main area of research is applications of the AdS/CFT (or gauge/gravity) correspondence to real-world physics. The AdS/CFT correspondence is a very powerful tool which allows a specific class of strongly-coupled field theories to be rewritten as classical theories of gravity. In particular I study the equilibrium properties, and excitations, of such strongly-coupled field theories at non-zero temperature and density by exploiting the fact that they can be rewritten in this simpler form. These results can be used to give insight into the behaviour of real strongly-coupled phases of matter such as those found in condensed matter physics and the quark-gluon plasma. My other colleagues working on these topics in Oxford are Nikolaos Kaplis and Saso Grozdanov. I am part of the string theory and particle theory research groups.

I was previously an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge and a member of Churchill College.