Overview
My current role is focussed on investigating novel technologies for the control and redirection of electromagnetic energy. I am based at QinetiQ in Farnborough and this work is part of the TEAM-A project (https://emps.exeter.ac.uk/team-a/).
My PhD project was titled: Bio-inspired Magnetic Systems: Controlled Swimming, Fluid Pumps, and Collective Motion. The aim was to deliver a new class of fluidic systems whose functionality could be controlled by external magnetic fields. The concept consisted of ferromagnetic micro-swimmers, comprising of a pair of anisotropically hard and soft ferromagnetic particles embedded in a polymer matrix. This project was part of the EU joint venture ABIOMATER, by the international consortium of University of Exeter (the coordinator) (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Barcelona (Spain), SPINTEC (France) and Platform Kinetics (UK).
I started my PhD in September 2015 after receiving my First Class in MPhys (Hons) Physics with Astrophysics in 2015. In my Masters project, I worked on simulating how young massive stars interact with their surrounding medium using three-dimensional Hydrodynamics.
Education and employment
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2019 – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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2019 – 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter
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2015 – 2019 Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University of Exeter
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2011 – 2015 MPhys (Hons) in Physics with Astrophysics, 1st Class, University of Exeter
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2009 – 2011 A levels (Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, D&T Product Design), Brockenhurst College
Further information
Conferences
Oral Presentations:
- Magnetism 2016, Sheffield UK (4th - 5th April 2016) - "Experimental investigation of magnetically controlled ferromagnetic swimmers"
- Intermag 2017, Dublin Ireland (24th - 28th April 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmer: A microfluidic pump prototype"
- 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Pittsburgh USA (6th - 10th November 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmers - Devices and Applications"
- 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver USA (19th - 21st November 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmers - Devices and Applications"
- Bio-inspired Magnetic Systems 2018, Exeter UK (9th - 11th July 2018) - "Ferromagnetic Swimmers: Fabrication, Controlled Swimming, and Applications" - Organised this workshop
Poster Presentations:
- 5th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism 2016, Fethiye Turkey (24th - 30th April 2016) - "Experimental investigation of magnetically controlled ferromagnetic swimmers"
- MAST STC Defence Materials Forum, Exeter UK (17th May 2016) - "Experimental control of magnetically actuated ferromagnetic swimmers"
- Magnetism 2017, York UK (3rd - 4th April 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmer: A microfluidic pump prototype"
- Micromotors Summer School, Dresden Germany (14th - 18th August 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmer: A microfluidic pump prototype" - Awarded Student Travel Grant
- Magnetism 2018, Manchester UK (9th - 10th April 2017) - "Ferromagnetic swimmer: fabrication, controlled swimming, and applications"
- 6th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism 2018, Antalya Turkey (30th April - 4th May 2018) - "Ferromagnetic swimmers - Devices and Applications" - 3rd Best Poster Prize
- International Conference on Magnetism 2018, San Francisco USA (15th - 20th July 2018) - "Elastic-ferromagnetic swimmers, pumps, and membranes" - Awarded Student Travel Grant
Conferences attended:
- IET mm-Wave and THz meeting, London UK (15th March 2019)
- Showcasing Emerging Technologies 2019 - Metamaterials, Birmingham UK (19th March 2019)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications 2019, Shanghai China (20th - 25th May 2019)
