Experience

University of Oxford, Department of Physics

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Teaching Technician

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  I help run the General Physics and Condensed Matter labs at Oxford University. I maintain the lab apparatus and commission new experiments for the Undergraduate teaching course. I design and construct mechanical apparatus using AutoCAD Inventor, and design and populate electronic circuit boards for lab experiments using DipTrace. I write lab software in a variety of languages, including Go, python, C/C++, LabView and Matlab, according to the project. I have experience of producing and using containerised applications via Docker, and using SQL. I am responsible for supervising a junior member of staff. Show less



Digital Native

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Apprentice

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2021

  I worked on a project to write a module for the teaching lab booking system in C#. The project involved using Javascript, C#, SQL, and an Object Relational Mapper library. I developed a single page application using Javascript to call a REST API implemented in C#, which in turn accessed an SQL database. I worked on a project to write a module for the teaching lab booking system in C#. The project involved using Javascript, C#, SQL, and an Object Relational Mapper library. I developed a single page application using Javascript to call a REST API implemented in C#, which in turn accessed an SQL database.



Lancaster University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Associate

  • Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

  At Lancaster, I was responsible for designing and fabricating superconducting resonators with integrated Superconducting-Normal-Superconducting proximity tunnel junctions, and superconducting qubit devices. I designed and modelled the devices using finite element modelling techniques in the COMSOL and Sonnet packages, producing lithographic device layouts in AutoCAD. I used electron beam evaporation thin film deposition and electron beam lithography. At Lancaster, I was responsible for designing and fabricating superconducting resonators with integrated Superconducting-Normal-Superconducting proximity tunnel junctions, and superconducting qubit devices. I designed and modelled the devices using finite element modelling techniques in the COMSOL and Sonnet packages, producing lithographic device layouts in AutoCAD. I used electron beam evaporation thin film deposition and electron beam lithography.



UCL

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  At UCL I designed electromagnetic microwave resonators using COMSOL that were used to study an anticrossing transition of bismuth doped silicon. I worked on electron-beam lithography to fabricate a superconducting single electron transistor, and carried out dielectric microwave resonance experiments on endohedral H₂O@C60 At UCL I designed electromagnetic microwave resonators using COMSOL that were used to study an anticrossing transition of bismuth doped silicon. I worked on electron-beam lithography to fabricate a superconducting single electron transistor, and carried out dielectric microwave resonance experiments on endohedral H₂O@C60



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post Doctoral Research Associate

  • Oct 2008 - Sep 2012

  My work at Oxford involved designing an experimental protocol to examine Lev Vaidman's quantum "Three Box Paradox" which we were then able to perform successfully at Ronald Hanson's lab in TU Delft. I was responsible for performing data analysis and interpretation of the results, and for writing and illustrating a journal article, and arranging the publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. At the Clarendon Lab, I studied the use of electric fields to perform coherent spin manipulations on paramagnetic manganese in zinc oxide which we published in PRL. I wrote control codes in Matlab and Python, and "glue" in C, C++ to interface to the hardware used to control experimental apparatus. I worked with the Materials Department, performing pulsed electron spin resonance (ESR) and combined electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) experiments on bismuth and phosphorus doped silicon, and N@C60 endohedral fullerenes. Show less