I am a theoretical physicist and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Bristol University. My work concerns the theory of quantum matter. I tend to work on phenomena which involve interesting shapes and patterns (geometry and topology).
Until 2023 I was a Lecturer in Physics at Cardiff University. Before that I held The Astor Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford, and a Lindemann Trust Fellowship, which sent me to the University of California, Berkeley. I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol. I was on the Perimeter Institute's Perimeter Scholars International programme. I was an undergraduate at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
Two reasons you might be visiting are that I have written a popular science book, The Magick of Matter; and I co-founded the The Grimm Network in Aperiodic Order in honour of my friend Uwe Grimm.
Please see my Publications; some popular write-ups of my Research; details of Talks I have given, both scientific and public; details about my Students and group; Teaching resources I have prepared; and Media work I have been involved in.
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