Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester working on the mechanical behaviour of complex nonlinear composites. My research interests primarily focus on the optical, acoustic, and opto-acoustic modelling of structured materials.

I have also worked on the control of wave energy in periodically perforated thin plates and on wave-structure interactions for floating sea ice. I have considerable expertise in the development of numerical solutions for wave propagation problems including boundary element method (BEM) solutions, finite element method (FEM) solutions, and multipole method (lattice sum) solutions.

• Metamaterials for enhanced acousto-optic interactions

  30 Jul 2017, The 13th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (ICTCA 2017)

• Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in nanostructured materials

  25 Sep 2016, The 5th Doctoral Conference on Optics (DoKDoK 2016)

• Optomechanics using COMSOL (professional tutorial)

  11 Jul 2016, 16th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD 2016)

• Where acoustics and optics meet: metamaterial acousto-optics

  20 Jun 2016, Metamaterials Beyond Photonics (ICMS)

Previous Teaching

• Lecturer for PHYS 3912: Senior Physics Optics, University of Sydney (2015)
• Lecturer for MATHS 108: General Mathematics 1, The University of Auckland (2012)
• Lecturer for MATHS 260: Introduction to Differential Equations, The University of Auckland (2011)

Former Students

• Ashwin Singh, Talented Student Program, University of Sydney (2016)
• Daniel Collins, BSc(Hons) in Physics, University of Sydney (2015)
• Tim Chisholm, Talented Student Program, University of Sydney (2015)
• Tim Roberts, Talented Student Program, University of Sydney (2015)

The University of Manchester

• (2018): Organising Committee for Workshop Elasticity Day 2018

The University of Sydney

• (2015-2017): Deputy Project Leader for Nanoplasmonics in CUDOS
• (2014-2017): Seminar coordinator for CUDOS

The University of Auckland

• (2010-2013): PhD Representative for the Department of Mathematics

Reviewer

• Scientific Reports
• Journal of Fluids and Structures
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A
• Materials
• APL Photonics
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
• Wave Motion

Phd Thesis

• Wave propagation through periodic structures in thin plates
  The University of Auckland (2014)

BSc(Hons) Thesis

• Vibration of elastic plates submerged in a fluid with a free surface
  The University of Auckland (2010)

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• Alan Turing Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom