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Employment and experience

• Research assistant Superconductivity; Mar–Aug 2021
  Created a Unix and Python-based software to simulate superconductors with unconventional pairing mechanisms, such as multiorbital spin-triplet pairing, inhomogeneous lattice geometries, (magnetic) impurities, self-consistently, in the mean-field limit.
  Code soon to be publicly available at GitHub.
  Theories of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductors, Physics of Quantum Materials Group, University of Kent; supervised by Dr Jorge Quintanilla

• Research project Quantum computing; Aug–Oct 2017
  Tests to determine whether the D-wave quantum computer operates quantum mechanically or classically, supervised by Dr Itay Hen University of Southern California

• See also teaching.

Entrepreneurship

• QuantaLumin 2024
  Founded a small business for generating and hosting bespoke websites for researchers, as well as organisational tools

Education

• PhD Theoretical Physics Sep 2018–March 2024
  Physics of Quantum Materials Group (unconventional superconductors); University of Kent
  Thesis (tentative title): Quasiparticle interference simulation of non-unitary spin-triplet multiorbital superconductivity (supervised by Drs Jorge Quintanilla and Sam Carr)

• MSci Joint Honours – First Class 2014–2018
  Theoretical Physics with Mathematics; Lancaster University
  Thesis: Quantum discord as a measure of nonlocal correlations in a Majorana-based device (supervised by Dr Alessandro Romito)
  Exchange year, University of Iowa; with project supervised by Prof. Craig Pryor: Coarse Graining the Tight-Binding model; 2016–2017

• European baccalaureate – 81.75% overall 2003–2014
  Higher Mathematics 91.0% (with 97.5% in final exam), Advanced Mathematics, Physics 85.3% (95.5% in final exam), Chemistry 81.0%, English 84.2%, French, Philosophy, Geography, History, Laboratory Physics, Physical Education.

Computing-based projects

• Quantum simulation of unconventional superconductors
  Code to be published in near-future after scientific publications.

• Maintain a Linux operating system
  Streamline technical work (based on Vim principles) and favouring command-line interface.
  Used for research and pedagogical applications.

• Arduino command-line interface projects
  Overseeing Arduino projects with precocious school and university students, avoiding use of graphics user-interface and integrated development environments, in favour of command-line, low-level programming.

• Molecular biophysics simulation with Professor Neil Kad: myofibril bands.
  Wrote a Python-based software MyoBand (see repositories GitHub and Python repository).

• Stem-cell branching morphogenesis simulation; Mathematica

Languages

Human

• English native, French professional proficiency, Spanish elementary proficiency, Portuguese comprehension, Mandarin Personal tuition with Kent Chinese Mandarin School, Russian University of Kent Language Express Course 2022–2023.

Machine

Programming philsophy: I enjoy the abstraction and clarity of scripting languages, but am unafraid to speak to the processor.

• Python software development for quantum simulation. Deep understanding of OOP and robust use of Types. I’ve custom configured Numpy and PyTorch’s BLAS libraries to push the limits of large matrix calculations.
• I wrote and manage a Linux custom Operating System to accelerate scientific research and study, based on Vim philosophy. Personal services across the machine are orchestrated with runit scripts, and packages are maintained with Artix.
• BASH Scripting of Quantum Simulation and Server Administration
• Web server hosting, transfer protocols (HTTPS/SSL, SSH), Unix security, frontend (HTML, CSS, SASS, JS), backend (PHP for forms, Hugo, BASH, SQL admininstation), email self-hosting (Postfix & Dovecot servers, encryption), Cloud self-hosting. See examples of my websites.
• LaTeX with NeoVim and Markdown (see my notes).
• kmonad Lisp: I wrote a custom keyboard to accelerate typing in multiple languages –human, mathematic and code.
• Experience with Mathematica (STEM cell research), Assembly (for Arduino microcontroller), Git (I host a Gitea instance for collaborators and students)
• Blender, Luma AI, and Three.js for 3D model rendering on websites (see canterburyballet.co.uk)
• R, CSV (Excel) data analysis projects at my Alma Mata.
• Perl, Lua, VimScript, AWK, RegEx: the Linux rabbit hole.
• C, C++, Fortran, CUDA, Vulkan, MakeFiles. I have experience with low-level languages from Linux System Management, writing an Arduino compiler (ongoing), and understanding the backend of high-level language library kernels.

Volunteering

• Communications and Operations 2023–
  Boxing Club, University of Kent

• Social event Organiser; December 2022
  Physics of Quantum Materials, University of Kent

• Social Secretary ; 2021–
  Kent Gymnastics Club, University of Kent

• Journal Club Organiser; 2019–2021
  Physics of Quantum Materials, University of Kent

• Biophysics Club Created and Organised; 2019–2020
  Physics of Quantum Materials, University of Kent

• Student Ambassador Travel abroad; 2017–2018
  Physics Department; Lancaster University

Teaching

• Mentoring 2023–
  Private Tutoring, Canterbury

• A-level Mentor 2022–
  Outreach, University of Kent

• Graduate Teaching Assistant 2018–2023
  Physical Sciences, University of Kent

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant 2016–2017
  Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

• Instructor Computing; 2015
  Camp Monroe, New York

Talks

• Dialectics of Nature; Physics of Quantum Materials Journal Club; University of Kent; 2022

• Multiorbital spin-triplet superconductivity in the SSH model; Physics of Quantum Materials Discussion Group; University of Kent; 2021

• Introduction to Branching Morphogenesis; Physics of Quantum Materials Discussion Group; University of Kent; 2020

• Time-reversal symmetry breaking in Superconductors; 3MT, University of Kent; 2019

Posters

• ExoSup 2022, Cargèse Summer School on Exotic Superconductivity; From hard-surfaces to soft-clusters: watching Majoranas wither and die; June 2022

• IOP Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials (CMQM 2021); Simulated quasiparticle interference for non-unitary spin-triplet multiorbital superconductivity with impurities; June 2021

Awards

• Mictacs Globalink Exchange Scholarship
  Funding for three month exchange at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Project: searching for caustics in fermionic systems; 2022.

• Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Full PhD Scholarship
  Awarded to outstanding applicants able to demonstrate a high level of academic achievement, excellent communication skills, and the potential to make a strong contribution to their chosen field of research; 2018–2022

• Autumn School on Correlated Electrons Forschungszentrum Julich
  Awarded funding for travel, accommodation and attendance; 2019

• Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition – Second place
  Time-reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors; Prize: Travel and attendance of a conference funding –used towards Physics by the Lake 2019; 2019

• School trip to CERN Awarded on merit; 2013

Extracurricular

• Boxing and Self-defence, University of Kent Boxing Club; 2023–

• Gymnastics University of Kent Gymnastics Club, Floor, Vault, Rings; 2022–2023

• Karate GKR, Yellow belt 2021

• Rowing Lancaster University LUBC, University of Kent UKCRC; 2017–2020

• Diving Qualified PADI Rescue Diver

• Rugby Brussels Celtic RFC, Standard d’Uccle, University of Iowa RC, Lancaster University LURUFC; 2003–2017