Intro

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University . See my bio for more history.

My research is focused on particle physics, studying the Standard Model and beyond!

Publications

A list of my publications can be found in the INSPIRE database here. You can also check my INSPIRE profile or my ORCID profile.

Research Interests

I am interested in investigating anomalies in the flavour sector and how they might be connected to new physics, and I use both simplified models and effective theory fits to understand potential links. I am also working on improving the precision of the theory predictions in flavour physics in order to better distinguish between the Standard Model and new physics. I am a strong proponent of open source computer codes, and their use as a tool in all of the above work.

Recent Talks

• A global fit at 1-loop the easy way - VLQs for BSM – Invited talk at “EFT Foundations and Tools” workshop, MITP Mainz (Sep 2023)
• The Cabibbo Angle Anomaly and a global fit to vector-like quarks – Talk at “FPCP 2023” conference, Lyon (May 2023)
• Vector-like Leptons – Invited talk at “Electroweak Precision Physics from Beta Decays to the Z Pole” workshop, MITP Mainz (Oct 2022)
• Review of New Physics in non-leptonic tree level B meson decays – Invited talk at “Status and Prospects of non-leptonic B meson decays”, Siegen (Jun 2022)
• CP violation in flavour anomaly models – Invited talk at “Heavy Quarks and Leptons” conference, Warwick (Sep 2021)

A complete list of my talks and posters can be found here.

Other activities

• Co-supervisor (with Professor Federico Mescia) of undergraduate thesis on perturbative unitarity bounds on new physics.
• I was the theory convener for the “Mixing and CP violation in Beauty and Charm” stream at the 2019 and 2022 editions of the LHCb Implications workshop.
• Peer review for EPJC, PRD and JHEP
• Seminar co-organiser at IPPP (and previously at ICCUB)

Outreach

I was heavily involved in outreach during my time at the IPPP, including taking part in the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition as part of the Modelling the Invisible exhibit as well various more local outreach events at Durham University for local schools.

As part of my commitment to outreach, I gave several talks to the wider postgraduate community in Durham:

• Chi ha ordinato quel? – Talk for postgrads at Grey College MCR
• Phenomenology: Not Just a Long Word – Talk for postgrads at Grey College MCR
• What Don’t We Know? – Talk for new postgrads at Grey College MCR
• Dark Matter - A Particle Physicist’s Perspective – Talk for postgrads at Grey College MCR

Misc

• I was awarded the Springer Thesis Prize for my PhD thesis, and it was published as a book (see here).
• A PDF of my PhD thesis can be found here – various typos, and a sign error in Appendix A, have been corrected relative to the version on INSPIRE.
• I have a GitHub repository of useful LaTeX templates / images here and other miscellaneous physics-related things here.