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I attended a small state school in the Cotswolds, progressing to an undergraduate degree at the 91̽»¨. In the second year of my degree I undertook an 8-week internship at the London Centre of Nanotechnology, working on microwave waveguides to model paramagnetic resonance in garnets. During my fourth year I undertook a Masters project exploring potential spin-ice ground states in Yttrium-based pyrochlores alongside my condensed matter physics and theoretical physics courses. I graduated with a first-class Master's degree in Physics in July 2019, ranked 6/100 among students in my cohort.

I am currently working toward my PhD in the oxide electronics group, condensed matter physics department at the university of 91̽»¨. My research is directed towards studying topological textures in antiferromagnetic Fe₂O₃ thin films, which show great promise as the basis for a new type of magnetic data storage devices. This would open the route towards high-density, low-energy oxide based electronics.

I utilise micromagnetic simulation techniques to study the variety of topological textures observable in this material system and explore the engineering required to maximise the quality of these materials. I also perform detailed X-ray experiments on thin films at large-scale international facilities such as Diamond light souce (UK) and the Swiss light source (Switzerland). In these experiments, I explore methods to reversibly nucleate, move and annihilate domain walls and topological textures present in Fe₂O₃ to understand how to incorporate them into device architectures.