• Experimental physicist with a variety of technical skills involving programming, data analysis and general debugging of complicated systems.
• I consider myself a social person and have developed strong communication and interpersonal skills through years of teaching, outreach, and scientific presentations.
• I have various international experiences having lived in different countries and having worked with people from many more.
• I value continuous learning, personal development and community highly and I seek opportunities that reflects these values.

If you feel my skills and experience could be of value, please feel free to get in touch.

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Hyperspectral X-ray micro-CT

University of Manchester / National Laboratory for X-ray CT (NXCT), UK

Jan 2026 - Current

• Establishing a hyperspectral X-ray micro-CT user system at NXCT (Manchester)
• The user system features a large-FOV (2x6 tiled) HEXITEC hyperspectral X-ray detector
• Ongoing work involves equipment purchases, detector characterisation, motor programming, and the development of the image processing and CT reconstruction pipeline

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Postdoctoral Researcher: Photon-counting, Phase-contrast, Spectral micro-CT

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) / Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Apr 2024 - Jan 2026

• Modelling and experimental validation of an experimental photon-counting, phase-contrast, spectral CT system in the PEPI lab (INFN Trieste)
• The spectral, photon-counting, phase-contrast x-ray imaging micro CT simulation tool is freely available here: PEPIsim
• Numerous micro CT acquisitions of diverse samples requiring precision alginment
• Introduced a GUI-based reconstruction pipeline that includes image preprocessing, CT reconstruction, phase-retrieval and spectral decomposition by contributing to existing code
• Experience operating various types of x-ray laboratory equipment including a micro-focus x-ray source, a spectral x-ray detector, numerous motorized stages, nitrogen gas tanks, chiller

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PhD Student Researcher: Laser Generated X-Ray Source / Phase-Contrast X-Ray Imaging

Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Sept 2020 - Apr 2024

• Worked in team to assemble and characterize a unique LASER-DRIVEN X-RAY SOURCE in a laser facility in the northwest of Spain
• Programmed motorized stages to reduce the movement error of a metal target to <10µm such that the surface is always in the focal point of laser pulses arriving at a rate 1000 pulses per second MICROMETER SCALE CORRECTION
• Determined parameters required to successfully perform PROPAGATION-BASED PHASE-CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGING
• Successfully captured first ever phase contrast image of a BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES
with this novel x-ray source
• Characterized properties of the x-ray source including the MICRON SCALE SOURCE SIZE and the X-RAY SPECTRUM

Secondary School Science Teacher

O Castro British School, Spain

Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

• Taught bachillerato (A level) physics as well as ESO (Y7 to Y11) physics, math, chemistry and general science to 500+ students involving two schedule changes in two months, then adapted to online teaching due to the coronavirus pandemic for the remainder of the year
• Managed a heavy workload and adapted to sudden schedule changes (replacing two different teachers)
• Communicated effectively with students, parents, other teachers, heads of department
• Regular use of Microsoft word, excel, outlook, zoom, google drive to coordinate and plan within the science department
• Slides from interview physics class.

University Teaching Assistant Positions

University of Victoria, Canada

Jan 2016 - Apr 2018

• Developed strong presentation and communication skills by teaching over 150 undergraduate students throughout my time at the University of Victoria
• 3 x Lab Instructor for Introductory Physics II which involves common undergraduate physics experiments
• Statistical Programming Assistant for Computational Modelling and Analysis (Python and Java) course. Taught a lecture on an introduction to Python. As a part of this lecture, I gave several examples of monte carlo simulations such as an estimation of particle cross-section probabilities.
• Lab Instructor for Introduction to Laboratory Electronics lab. This was a second-year lab that introduced students to a wide variety of laboratory electronic equipment
• Assisted students in the use of common laboratory equipment
• A brief teaching evaluation SUMMARY.

MSc Student Researcher: Personalized Radiation Therapy

University of Victoria, Canada

Sept 2015 - Aug 2017

• Used data science techniques to personalize radiation therapy treatment for prostate cancer patients
• Independently learned and applied data science and machine learning techniques to predict patient prostate movement during radiation therapy sessions (Python, pandas, scikit-learn)
• Worked and communicated with a team of people coming from diverse backgrounds (oncologists, radiation therapists, medical physicists) to organize patient datasets

Here is a link to my master's thesis: Master's Thesis

Here is a link to my master's thesis defense presentation: Master's Thesis Defense Presentation

All data science and machine learning methods for this project were completed in Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib).