Welcome to my website here at the University of Leicester. I'm a Lecturer in Theoretical Astrophysics, in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. I also currently hold an STFC Advanced Fellowship.

My research studies how planets form in discs around young stars like our Sun, how stars form, and how super-massive black holes grow. Most of my work involves building theoretical and numerical models of these systems, in order to try and understand how they behave and evolve. Current research topics include accretion on to young stars, planet migration, and mergers of binary super-massive black holes.

Prior to moving here I worked as a postdoc in Leiden, and before that in Colorado. I did my PhD at the IoA in Cambridge, and in the slightly more distant past I was an undergraduate in Edinburgh.