Contact Information

Research Interests

Pulsar Astrophysics

High-End Computing

Numerical simulation of plasmas

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation

Novel visualisation techniques

Current position

E-INIS Computational Support Scientist for all of Science in NUI, Galway. System administrator and support scientist for those that wish to access the large-scale compute clusters hosted in the School of Physics.

Outreach activities

Centre for Astronomy Public lecture on Pulsars

Actively involved in the Centre for Astronomy's Open nights for the last 5 years to include:

Presentation on mankind's understanding of the Universe

3D tour of the Universe using the centre's state-of-the-art 3D vizualisation suite

Tour and demonstration of the University's Imbusch Observatory

Host frequent primary and secondary school visits to the Centre to inlcude the presentation, 3D tour and tour & demonstartion of the observatory mentioned above; all presented at a level designed to teach, enthuse and inspire the students into learning more about the Universe in which we live.

Key/recent publications

Investigations into the plasma distribution in the vicinity of a pulsar: DYMPHNA3D,
Proceedings of the 40 years of pulsars conference, 12th-17th August 2007, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Investigations into the plasma distribution in the vicinity of a pulsar: DYMPHNA3D – I Basic Formulation, 
ApJ, 690, 1st January 2009.

Teaching responsibilities

3^rd Year Physics Laboratory Supervisor

1^st Year Physics Laboratory Supervisor