Professional Experience

  • 2017 - present Active and engaged father of 2 arse-kicking girls
  • 2023 - present Research Fellow // University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2021 - 2022: Research Associate // University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
  • 2021: Parental leave - 2 months
  • 2020 - 2021: Research Fellow // University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia & Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway
  • 2020: Consulting Data Analyst // Heywood Engineering Solutions, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2017: Parental leave - 4 months
  • 2015 - 2020: Antarctic Coastal Ocean Modeller // University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  • 2013 - 2014: Visiting Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar // Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin, USA
  • 2011 - 2012: Ecosystem Modeller // Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Hobart, Australia
  • 2011: Ice-Ocean Modeller // Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia

Experience in the Field

  • December 2018 - March 2019: AUV Sorsdal mission // Lead Field Scientist
  • December 2013 - February 2014: NBP 1402 // Field Oceanographer

Qualifications

2012–2015: Doctor of Philosophy (Quantitative Marine Science) // Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

2012–2015: Graduate Diploma in Marine Sciences // Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

2010: Bachelor of Science with Honours Class I (Quantum Physics) // School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Australia

2007–2009: Bachelor of Science // School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Australia

Code and Languages

  • Analysis languages: Matlab (fluent), Python (high proficiency)
  • Programming languages: FORTRAN (intermediate proficiency), C (basic proficiency), Markdown, LaTeX, HTML
  • Other software: git & github; NCI & Nectar virtual machine and HPC interfacing; Linux & bash shell
  • Actual languages: English; German (trying to learn!)

Invited seminars, lectures and talks (Seminars ~1 hr, Lecture ~15 mins)

  • Invited Lecture, Numerical modelling of the oceans and cryosphere, Studying Earth Science honours for UQ BSc students, Brisbane, 2023
  • Invited Tutorial, Introduction to Ocean Modelling, ROMS and python, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2023
  • Invited Lecture, The Cryosphere for Terrestrial Ecologists, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network webinar series, Brisbane, 2023
  • Invited Lecture, Towards better integration - the Cryosphere, Integrated Earth Symposium, Canberra, 2023
  • Invited Seminar, Subglacial freshwater drainage increases modelled basal melt of the Totten ice shelf, Physical Oceanography seminar series, British Antarctic Survey, 2023
  • Invited Lecture, Evaluating a high spatiotemporal resolution XBT observation system of the EAC using Observing System Simulation Experiments, Australian Coastal Ocean Modelling and Observation workshop, Fremantle, 2022
  • Invited Seminar, Subglacial freshwater drainage increases modelled ice shelf basal melting, Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics Lab Seminar, UQ, Australia. 2020.
  • Invited Seminar, ICE/OCEAN INTERACTIONS BENEATH THE SORSDAL, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab Seminar. UNSW, Australia. 2020.
  • Invited Seminar, ICE/OCEAN INTERACTIONS BENEATH THE SORSDAL, Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres Seminar. Oregon State University, USA. 2020.
  • Public Lecture, Natural, intrinsic variability in melt rates of the Totten Ice Shelf, Australia-China Antarctic Forum. Beijing Normal University, China. 2019.
  • Public Lecture, Australia’s first under-ice AUV deployment, Hobart, Australia 2019.
  • Public Seminar, ICE SHELVES: waterfront mansions and the little glacier that could, Davis Station Science Seminar, Davis Station, Antarctica, 2019.
  • Invited Lecture, The influence of natural variability on ice shelf melting, MISOMIP meeting, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2018.
  • Invited Tutorial: Intro to ROMS, FISOC Workshop, Lapland, Finland 2018.
  • Invited Lecture, Ice/ocean models to investigate climate change, Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, Hobart, Australia 2017.
  • Invited Lecture, Using Ocean & Ice-sheet models to inform observations,OASIIS/POGO Workshop, Bremerhaven, Germany 2017.
  • Policy analysis seminar, ACECRC Position Analysis presentation, Canberra, Australia 2017.
  • Invited Lecture, Modelling Ice shelf-Ocean interaction with ROMS, Ice-Climate Symposium, Canberra, Australia 2016.
  • Invited Lecture, Ice-ocean interaction at the boundary layer: Lessons learnt from idealised experiments,Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, 2016.
  • Invited Lecture, Ice-ocean interaction at the boundary layer: Lessons learnt from idealised experiments, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 2016.
  • Invited Seminar, Investigating the Ocean-driven melting of the Totten Glacier Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA 2014.