About

My passion is the application of high level programming languages (such as Python) to scientific problems.  Higher level languages enable the scientist/developer to achieve the results they are interested make changes and explore new ideas much faster than lower languages (C/C++, Fortran, etc).

I am a physicist currently working at Jülich Forschungszentrum, in the pedestrian dynamics group, where I am attached to the Hermes project. The Hermes project is developing a system to assist in the evacuation of large public spaces, to be installed in in the ESPRIT arena in Düsseldorf (max. 66,000 spectators) in 2011.  I am responsible for the analysis of experimental data and the development of new modeling approaches.

Previously I have been a researcher in theoretical particle physics:

University Of Bielefeld

October 2006 - December 2008

Post-doctoral research in theoretical particle physics, where I researched the thermal properties of the quark-gluon plasma. I also developed software for efficient parallel computation to be executed on apeNEXT and IBM Blue Gene supercomputers.

University Of Oxford

September 2002 - September 2006

DPhil research in theoretical particle physics, investigating properties of the deconfining phase transition for SU(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions.

University Of Manchester

September 1998 - July 2002

Physics with Theoretical Physics, MPhys 1st class