CV
Employment
Personal Research Fellow, Scottish Government and Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009-Present)PDRA, Geophysical modelling of CCS, SCCS, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2008-2009)
PDRA, NANIA, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2004-2008)
Education
PhD, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2000-2004)MPhys, Oxford University, Department of Physics (1996-2000)
Hessle High School (1994-1996)
Esteem indicators
2012EGU Session Convener on Earthquake Triggering and CO2 storage in Europe
2011
Invited speaker at an ESF Research Conference on "Continuing Challenges in Earthquake Dynamics: New Methods for Observing and Modelling a Multi-Scale System" , Obergurgl
EGU Session Convener on Earthquake Triggering
2010
Invited Panel Member on the Institute of Physics meeting on "A Dialogue on Complexity Applied", Judge Business School, Cambridge (Sept)
Invited speaker on the EPSRC Summer School on CCS held in Beijing, China talking on "Geological storage of CO2: Capacity, injectivity, security and monitorability"
CORSSA Executive Committee Member, www.corssa.org
Invited speaker on the UKCCS Young Researchers Day Risk and Uncertainty for Geological Storage of CO2
Pre 2010
Presenter on EPSRC mission to China on CCS in Beijing (2009)
NANIA conference organiser (2007)
Recent awards: Total ~ £750k
Research council
2010-2015 £500k Scottish Government and RSE Research Fellowship2010-2013 £180k CoI, WP leader PDRA Supervisor on the £1.4M NERC QICS Consortium project (NE/H013989/1)
Industry
2010-12 £70k PI on 4 industry funded projects including
ScottishPower : Actuarial risk for CO2 storage: defining an evidence base
ScottishPower : Derisking pressure-temperature uncertainty at Goldeneye
IHS : Scoping Study – Batch conversion of PT database into CO2 phase profiles
Other
2010 Scottish Crucible Alumni
Teaching
Physics of the Earth - Seismology: 2nd year - 8 lecturesMathematical Methods for Geophysicists: 3rd year - 10 lectures
Risk and Uncertainty for the Geological Storage of CO2: 1 day CPD course; 3 hours on CCS Masters
Computational modelling
I have strong knowledge and experience with Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) and Cellular Automata (CA) and some experience with finite difference codes.Scientific Courses
Spatial Modelling with INLA Workshop, St Andrews, (2012, 3 days)Media training, Royal Society, (2011, 2 days)
Sense about science, Workshop about the miscommunication of science in the media, RSE, Edinburgh (2009, 1 day)
Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery, SCCS, Edinburgh (2009, 1 day)
HPC Techniques in Computational Engineering - CFD, EPCC, Edinburgh (2008, 3 days)
Summer School in Complexity Science: Emergent phenomena via separation of scales in time and space, Imperial College London, (2007, 10 days)
Nonlinear Computational Solid & Fluid Mechanics: Theoretical formulation, FEM technology and computation, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (2006, 5 days)
Applied Numerical Algorithms, EPCC, Edinburgh (2006, 4 days)
Scientific Visualisation using VTK, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 1 day)
Practical Software Development, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 4 days)
Java for High Performance Computing, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 2 days)
Introduction to High Performance Computing, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 1 day)
Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, DAMPT, Cambridge (2002, 2 weeks)
Earth Systems Science Summer School, UAE, Norwich (2001, 2 weeks)
Personal Development Courses
Time management, Edinburgh (2011, 0.5 days)Introduction to MBTI Personality Type, Edinburgh (2010, 1 days)
Assertiveness, Edinburgh (2010, 1 days)
Project management for researchers, Edinburgh (2010, 2 days)
Scottish Crucible (2009, 3 x 2 day)
Introducing Management, Edinburgh (2008, 2.5 day)
Making Funding Application, Edinburgh (2007, 1 day)
Enhancing your writing skills, Edinburgh (2007, 1 day)
Fieldwork/Outdoor First Aid Course, Marlin, at Edinburgh (2006, 2 days)
Presentation Skills, Edinburgh (2000, 1 day)
Computing Skills
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows XP, Unix, MacOSCommercial geological modeling software : MPath, Petrel
Programming Languages : Java, Perl, Python, Fortran, C++, Matlab, Bash
Programming Tools Employed : Netbeans IDE, Ant, SubVersion / CVS, JFreeChart
Statistical Analysis : S+, R, SSlib, Excel
Web Design : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Google Maps API & KML [][example], Google Analytics
Graphical Design : Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, ImageMagick, GMT, Inkscape, CorelDraw
Word Processing : Word, Open Office, LaTex
Presentation : PowerPoint, OpenOffice