People
The researchers and students I work with at Manchester — across dark matter, instrumentation, levitating sensors, neutrinos, phenomenology and AI. This group is also the core of Dark Matter Manchester.
Prospective PhD students and postdoctoral researchers: I welcome enquiries. See join the group for current opportunities and advice.
Principal Investigator
Diverse interests across particle physics, software development and data analysis at colliders and in direct dark matter detection, high-frequency gravitational waves, neutrino physics, phenomenology, instrumentation, and the deployment of AI techniques.
Particle Astrophysics Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Instrumentation development for direct dark matter searches.
Engineer
SiPM sensor assembly, metrology, and testing for the neutron veto system of the DarkSide experiment.
Engineer
Development of handling and shipping systems and processes for DarkSide-20k sensors.
PhD student (2026–)
Development of opto-mechanical levitating quantum sensors for dark matter detection.
PhD student (2025–)
Advancing spin-dependent dark matter searches with DarkSide-20k through detector instrumentation, sensitivity studies and sidereal analyses.
PhD student (2025–)
Advancing the discovery potential of liquid argon dark matter detectors through detector commissioning, calibration and novel sensitivity studies.
PhD student (2023–)
Advancing direct detection frontiers for dark matter, new neutrino physics and high-frequency gravitational waves through detector modelling, optimisation and novel sensor technologies.
PhD student (2021–)
Silicon photosensor instrumentation for next-generation dark matter searches.
MPhil student
Sensitivity studies for beyond-the-Standard-Model low-energy solar CEνNS anomalies with low-threshold dual-phase liquid-argon TPCs.
MPhys student (2025–26)
A muon cosmic-ray detector and mini DarkSide-20k demonstrator for public engagement, using silicon photosensor modules built for the DarkSide-20k neutron veto. With Louis Durand.
MPhys student (2025–26)
A muon cosmic-ray detector and mini DarkSide-20k demonstrator for public engagement, using silicon photosensor modules built for the DarkSide-20k neutron veto. With David Crofts.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Vector boson fusion studies at the ATLAS experiment.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Data analysis at the ATLAS experiment, LHC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Collider physics at ATLAS; now faculty in China.
PhD / Postdoctoral Research Associate · 2013–2016
Determination of the electroweak Zjj production cross-section at ATLAS.
PhD student
Fast inference techniques in the physical sciences.
PhD student · 2013–2017
Searches for new heavy gauge bosons in weak boson fusion.
Now
PhD student (Indiana University) · 2012–2016
Observation of electroweak W+jets production and kinematic tests of vector boson fusion.
PhD student (Indiana University) · 2008–2012
Upsilon production studies, Di-muons near the Upsilon resonances in ATLAS.
MScR student · 2021–2022
Prospects for DarkSide-20k to probe non-standard neutrino interactions from solar neutrino sources.
Now
MScR student · 2021–2022
Searching for new phenomena in high-energy photon–photon collisions at the LHC with ATLAS-AFP.
Now
MScR student · 2019–2020
Diagnostic study of the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter detection experiment.
Now PhD student
MScR student · 2018–2020
Coherent scattering of supernova neutrinos in next-generation liquid noble gas dark matter detectors.
Now PhD student
MPhys students · 2022–23
Experimental signatures to search for low mass dark matter gravitationally captured in celestial bodies.
Now
MPhys students · 2021–22
Doubly-charged Higgs boson searches at the LHC through vector boson fusion.
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MPhys students · 2021–22
Feasibility of new searches for dark photons at the LHC ATLAS experiment.
Now
MPhys students · 2020–21
Dark matter production in high-energy photon–photon interactions at the LHC ATLAS and AFP experiments.
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MPhys students · 2020–21
WW and ZZ production in photon-fusion interactions at the ATLAS experiment.
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MPhys students · 2020–21
Applications of data science to HSBC UK Asset Finance.
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MPhys students · 2020–21
Applications of data science to HSBC UK Asset Finance.
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MPhys students · 2019–20
Feasibility studies and sensitivity estimations for a new search for heavy Majorana neutrinos at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2019–20
New approaches to searching for dark matter and QCD axion production at the LHC.
Now
MPhys students · 2019–20
Generative adversarial network approaches to enhance simulation of liquid-argon time projection chambers and dark matter detection sensitivity.
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MPhys students · 2019–20
Fisher information to enhance the sensitivity of future dark matter searches.
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MPhys students · 2019–20
Potential to measure double parton scattering interactions in top quark pair production at the LHC.
Now
MPhys student · 2018–19
Simulation and sensitivity studies for supernovae detection with the DarkSide-20k dark matter detector.
MPhys student · 2018–19
Performance of the DarkSide-50 detector for direct dark matter searches.
MPhys students · 2018–19
Indirect searches for extra dimensions at the LHC.
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MPhys students · 2017–18
New searches for invisible phenomena at the LHC.
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MPhys students · 2017–18
Sensitivity of future searches for vector-like quarks at the LHC.
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MPhys student · 2017–18
Future release of the CERN ATLAS 13 TeV proton–proton Open Data.
MPhys student · 2016–17
First extraction of the direct J/ψ production rate using LHC pp collision data.
Now
MPhys student · 2016
Long-distance matrix elements for charmonium production in Non-Relativistic QCD.
MPhys students · 2014–15
Discovery potential for an extended Higgs sector in novel rare decay modes at HL-LHC.
Summer research intern · 2022
Interplay of non-standard neutrino interactions and dark matter discovery in liquid-argon direct detection experiments.
Now
Summer research intern · 2022
Educational and public engagement materials for the ATLAS Education and Outreach group at CERN.
Now
Summer research intern · 2021
Potential for DarkSide-20k to probe non-standard neutrino interactions.
Now
Summer research intern · 2019
Effective field theory simulations of nuclear energy recoils for non-standard dark matter searches at DarkSide-20k.
Summer research intern · 2019
Sensitivity studies for new ATLAS searches for heavy sterile Majorana neutrinos.
Now
Summer research intern · 2019
New phenomena searches with the ATLAS forward proton detector.
Summer research interns · 2018
Simulations for the DarkSide-20k dark matter detection neutron veto system.
Now
Summer research intern · 2017
Quantum-mechanical interference modelling in searches for high mass di-lepton resonances at the LHC.
Now
Summer research intern · 2016
Precision measurement of the branching fraction of the ψ(2S) meson into di-muon pairs using LHC pp collision data.
Summer research intern · 2014
Quantum-mechanical interference in electroweak physics processes.
