CV

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Basic Info

I work on Galactic dynamics and Milky Way archaeology, combining Gaia data, spectroscopic surveys, and dynamical modelling to study the secular evolution of the Galactic disc and bar, together with related questions in the stellar halo and variable-star populations.

Work

Nov 2026 - Future

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany

Education

Oct 2023 - Present

PhD in Astronomy

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge / Churchill College

Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

MASt in Astrophysics

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge / King's College

Oct 2019 - Jul 2022

BSc in Physics with Theoretical Physics

Imperial College London

Prizes & Scholarships

2025

Murdin Prize

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

PhD

STFC PhD Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship

UKRI / STFC

Talks

Conference and seminar talks listed in reverse chronological order. Repeated versions of the same project are kept as separate entries.

JUN 2026

Modelling the secular evolution of the Milky Way

AIP

2026

Secular evolution of the Galactic disc

Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB)

2025

Modelling the secular evolution of the Galactic disc

National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC)

2025

Secular evolution of the Milky Way's disc

University of Surrey

2025

A time-resolved kinematic map of the inner Milky Way

Durham University

2025

Formation time of the Galactic disc from bar chronokinematics

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

2025

Stellar migration in a gas-rich galactic disc

ALMA, JWST, Gaia - the Milky Way connection

JUN 2025

Radial migration in the Galactic disc with a decelerating bar

Gravity in the Local Group, Carnegie Mellon University

2025

Signatures of bar-driven radial migration in the Milky Way's disc

National Astronomy Meeting: Revealing the Galactic dynamics with Gaia

2025

Origin of the disc's bimodality and the bar-driven radial migration

National Astronomy Meeting: Evolution of Barred Galaxies

SEP 2024

A panoramic photograph of the Galactic bar from long period variables

Waves in the Milky Way's disc, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2024

A panoramic photograph of the inner Milky Way

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

JUL 2024

A panoramic photograph of the Galactic bar from long period variables

National Astronomy Meeting: Revealing the Galactic Ecosystems of the Milky Way with Gaia and GaiaNIR

MAY 2024

What is rotating in the early Milky Way: a disc or a halo

The Assembly Tale of the Milky Way, INAF

DEC 2023

Do we have an early disc in the Milky Way

The Milky Way and its high-redshift progenitors in theory and observations

Teaching & Leadership
  • Part III project supervision: Revealing phase-space chevrons with RR Lyrae (Oct 2025 - Jul 2026).
  • Part III project supervision: Uncovering the origin of the azimuthal metallicity variations in the Galactic disc (Oct 2024 - Jul 2025).
  • LOC member for Beyond Hubble: Revisiting the Hubble Sequence Across Cosmic Time, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, April 2026.
  • Member of the DESI collaboration, the Pristine collaboration, and the Synergy collaboration.
  • Reviewer for A&A and AAS journals, and local host for visiting summer students at the Institute of Astronomy.