About

I am a Physics PhD student at Swansea University, conducting my research at CERN based in Geneva, where I work on the ALPHA experiment studying magnetically trapped antimatter. Our work focuses on antihydrogen, the simplest pure-antimatter system, which allows precision comparisons with hydrogen and tests of fundamental symmetries.

We are working in working in the only Antimatter Factory on Earth! (Photo: Dr. V. Marshall)

I am currently leading the integration of a cryogenic silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) detection system for in-situ plasma diagnostics and fluorescence detection of antiydrogen, as well as the development of a new Penning trap. I also lead the analysis of the first excited-state spectroscopy of antihydrogen.

Before CERN, I worked on the Smart*Light project at Eindhoven University of Technology, where I modeled the x-ray spectra from inverse-Compton interactions and performed radiation and beam-dump simulations using FLUKA.

Outside of physics, I play guitar in a blues band, and I enjoy cooking and running.