Teaching & learning
Teaching
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, research-led project supervision, and the design of training that puts real research data into students' hands.
Courses & curriculum
I have lectured particle-physics and new-physics courses at Manchester (“Frontiers of Particle Physics: Searches for New Physics”; “Special Topics: Particle Physics”) and contributed to syllabus development for introductory data science. I am an undergraduate tutor and a third-year laboratory demonstrator.
Real data in the lab
I have built undergraduate laboratory and project work around open research data released by the ATLAS Collaboration, so students analyse genuine data from a running experiment. This grew from a final-year project into lab courses, and into a fully remote-capable model using Jupyter notebook servers.
Doctoral training
As Director of the 4IR Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science, I designed and deliver a programme of fifteen postgraduate training courses across Manchester, Lancaster and Sheffield — including industry-led training and fully-online provision developed with the HEP Software Foundation and the Software Sustainability Institute.
PhD supervision
- 2021–Conner Roberts — Silicon photosensor instrumentation for next-generation dark matter searches.
- 2020–Ben Wilson — Novel probes of lepton number violation through electroweak interactions.
- 2019–Ellen Sandford — Non-standard dark matter searches with the DarkSide experiment.
- 2019–Ben Honan — Exploring new phenomena with model-independent tests of electroweak physics.
- 2017–2022Candice Basson — Standard Model backgrounds in the search for dark matter produced with b-quarks at ATLAS.
- 2015–2019Rebecca Pickles — Novel searches for new phenomena through electroweak boson fusion at ATLAS.
Master's by research
- 2022–2023Hayden Casey — Sensitivity & design studies for a future LAr low-mass dark matter detector.
- 2021–Huazhen Li — Searches for new phenomena in photon-fusion with ATLAS/AFP.
- 2021–Eleanor Bishop — Low-mass dark matter and non-standard neutrino interactions with liquid-argon TPCs.
- 2019–2020Sparshita Dey — Sensitivity studies for next-generation direct dark matter detection.
- 2018–2020Ishanee Pophale — Supernova neutrino searches with the DarkSide experiment.
Postdoctoral researchers supervised
Ash Ritchie-Yates, Volker Austrup, Stephen Menary, Sam Dysch, Agni Bethani, Julia Iturbe, James Robinson, Xiahou Sun.
MPhys projects
39 final-year MPhys research projects supervised since 2014, spanning dark matter, photon-fusion searches, heavy Majorana neutrinos, generative models for liquid-argon simulation, and industrial data-science projects with partners including HSBC UK Asset Finance.
Examining
External examiner of PhD vivas and MPhil/MSc dissertations at the University of Liverpool, University of Edinburgh, University College London, University of Warwick, Royal Holloway University of London, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, University of Durham, University of Cape Town, and University of Zürich; internal examiner at the University of Manchester.