About Me
I’m a Welsh Astrophysicist 🔭🏴
Croeso! I’m an Astrophysics PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), where I study the nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave background. I’m also a Research Assistant for the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) and International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA), where I run our detection and characterisation pipelines and I develop new methods to analyse our data.
My research interests include supermassive black hole binaries, cosmology, spectral characterisation, and Bayesian statistics. I developed ceffyl - one of the engines behind the powerful PTArcade suite for new physics searches in pulsar timing array data.
I’m also committed to science communication and advocating for my community. I’m a former writer and current website chair for Astrobites, and I’ve recently started contributing to articles on Wikipedia. Outside of science, I’m a triathlete-in-training, swing dancer, reader, and music lover.
I’m originally from Wales and my first language is Cymraeg.
Featured Projects
Pulsar Timing Arrays
Learn about the experiments that I’m working on - the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) and the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)
Science Communication and Advocacy
Read about my work in communicating science to the public and in advocating for science and the scientific community