Whoami

Education

University College Dublin June 2018, PhD. Studying VHE Blazars with VERITAS and the Detection of VHE Emission from OJ 287.
University College Dublin June 2014, BSc. Physics with Astronomy and Space Science (Porter Medal awardee).

Research Associate, Trottier Space Institute. McGill University 2023-Present. Computer technology Fellow. Focusing on computational and data science research, in collaboration with, and in support of, the TSI.
Post Doctoral Researcher, McGill University 2018-2023. Focused on the calibration of the HELIX experiment and analysis of very-high-energy astrophysics with VERITAS.

McDonald Institute Postdoctoral Scholar Award recipient 2022. Awarded by the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. This award "recognizes demonstrated excellence across a broad suite of contributions to astroparticle physics research in Canada (e.g., leadership roles in the community, innovation, scientific contribution)."
VERITAS Trevor Weekes Award recipient 2022. Awarded by the VERITAS collaboration to "formally recognize the significant contributions of more early-career members of the collaboration in the critical service work that enables scientific publications of VERITAS, but do not result in any scientific publications directly".
VERITAS Time Allocation Committee: 2017 - 2018, 2019 - 2023. Elected to the VERITAS TAC, involved with reviewing and ranking observation proposals. Chair of TAC from 2020-2023.

Calibration of the Aerogel radiator tiles for the RICH of the HELIX Experiment: 11th International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors (RICH 2022), co-presented with David Hanna, Edinburgh (Scotland), September 2022
Multiwavelength observations of the extreme HBL H 1426+428: 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (\(\mathrm{\gamma}\)-2022), Barcelona (Spain), July 2022