Employment
Professor, January 2018-
DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark
Senior Scientist December 2011 - December 2017
DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark
Oberassistent (Research Scientist/Lecturer), March 2008 - November 2011
Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, March 2006 - February 2008
Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, June 2005 - February 2006
Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, University of Leeds, UK
Education
Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Leeds, UK, 2005
Project title: Hydromagnetic waves in Earth's core and their influence on geomagnetic secular variation
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Jackson
Masters Degree in Physics (1st Class Honours), University of Oxford, UK, 2001
Final year project title: A study of quenching in two chaotic systems
Supervisors: Prof. Raymond Hide and Dr. Guy Peskett
Wallace High School, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK, 1997
10 GCSEs (7A*, 3A Grades) and 4 A-levels (4A Grades)
Awards
Doornbos Memorial Prize, 2012
Awarded biannually by the Committee on Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior - SEDI (IUGG) - for outstanding work on the Earth's deep interior by a young scientist
Professional Service
Chair of IAGA Division V-Mod WG, 2011-2015
Leader of International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team investigating Rapid Dynamics in the Earth's Core, 2012 - 2015
Chair of International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF-11) task force, 2009