CV

Education

Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK Oct 2019 - Dec 2023
PhD Chemistry
  • Primary supervisor: Dr Mohammadali Foroozandeh. Co-supervisors: Prof. Timothy Claridge, Dr Fay Probert
  • Thesis title: “Estimation of NMR signals in the time domain: methodology, applications and software”
  • Developed algorithms based on singular value decomposition, model order selection, and numerical optimization, to extract quantitative information from FIDs.
  • Authored the NMR Estimation in Python (NMR-EsPy) package.
Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
MChem Chemistry (1st Class Honors)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Baldwin
  • Thesis title: “An investigation of relaxation phenomena in I3S nuclear spin systems”
  • Investigated relaxation phenomena in I3S spin systems, with the long-term goal of devising TROSY-style experiements for systems featuring 13CF3 moieties.
Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, UK Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
A-Levels

Maths: A*, Further Maths: A*, Physics: A*, Chemistry: A*, Biology: A*

Professional Roles

Advanced Science Research Center, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA Oct 2023 - May 2026
Research Associate: Computational Science
  • Supervisor: Dr Bruce Johnson
  • Contributed to the applications NMRFx for NMR data processing and analysis, and RING NMR for NMR relaxation data fitting.

Teaching Roles

Chemistry Teaching Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Undergraduate Laboratory Demonstrator
  • Instructed and evaluated undergraduate students in physical and theoretical chemistry practicals.
UNIQ Summer School, University of Oxford, UK Jul 2020 & Jul 2021
Physical Checmistry Tutor
  • Ran seminars on physical chemistry (reaction kinetics) for UNIQ, a residential summer school for UK state school students from backgrounds that are under-represented at higher education institutions.

Noteworthy Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python (advanced), Java (intermediate), Rust (basic), C++ (basic), Haskell (basic), MATLAB (basic),
  • Python Packages: Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, Tkinter, Sphinx, Requests, Flask
  • Miscellaneous Computing: Linux, Bash shell and scripting, Git, Github Actions, LaTeX, Vim, PostgreSQL, HTML, Markdown
  • Knowledge of NMR theory, including spin relaxation
  • Knowledge of NMR signal processing, including the use personally-developed software, NMRPipe and NMRFx
  • Experience operating Bruker and Varian NMR Specrometers

Publications

See the Publications page.

Awards

Graduate Organic Chemistry Symposium Mar 2021
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Prize for presentation titled “Quantifying NMR signals in the time domain”.

MChem Thesis Prize Oct 2019
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Attained 2nd highest mark in cohort for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry masters thesis.

Part 1A Prize Oct 2017
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Attained the 4th highest mark in cohort for 2nd year undergraduate chemistry examinations.

2015 Chemistry Olympiad, UK Round 1 Mar 2015

Gold Award