About Me

I'm a Scientific Software Engineer at Climate X, where I build and scale the geophysical and financial models that help institutions quantify climate risk. Day to day, that means working across catastrophe modelling, expected annual losses, and climate adaptation costs—wrangling terabytes of geospatial data and making sure our Slurm cluster doesn't catch fire.

Before this, I spent five years at Imperial College developing solvers for ocean and plasma simulations. My PhD focused on multigrid methods for compatible finite element discretisations—essentially, making large-scale physical simulations faster and more accurate. I contributed to Firedrake, an open-source finite element library, and I'm a co-author on its user manual.

I like working across abstraction boundaries. I've written preconditioners for the next generation of ocean models, built ML postprocessing pipelines at the Met Office, briefed the Government Chief Scientific Advisor on climate misinformation, and spent three months at Los Alamos shipping a fusion solver that became a publication. The common thread is starting with the problem and figuring out what actually solves it.

I also spent too many years tutoring A-Level maths, which taught me that explaining something clearly is often harder than doing it.

Experience

Publications & Talks

Beyond Work

• UK Mathematics Trust: Mentoring Olympiad-level students and marking national competition papers
• Andover Town Council: Elected councillor; Deputy Chair of Planning Committee
• Conference speaking: PyCon, Copper Mountain, SIAM, Firedrake annual meetings