Science

Publications

You can find all publications to which I have made significant contributions in this ADS library.

Conferences/Workshops

• September 2025 SPINS-UK. I was on the organising committee, though it should be said the excellent Vanessa Graber and Adriana Dias did most of the work.

• June 2025 A Taste of Physics and Astronomy. Back again for a repeat of our taster day. This time we changed the format up and got the students more involved in the activities.

• January 2025 Gravitational Wave Analysis in the Era of Machine Learning

• June 2023 A Taste of Physics and Astronomy. Lead organiser: 30 A-level students given a taste of University life, including lectures, admission discussions, and activities across the department.

• May 2023 GWOSC ODW #6. Co-organiser: a hybrid workshop with 2000+ people enrolled, 22 study local study hubs, and 300 active participants. I ran a local study up in London (UK) at the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society.

• May/2020 LIGO-Virgo Collaboration GW Open Data Workshop #3. Co-organizer, invited to write and coordinate the Parameter Estimation tutorials for 100 students (virtual).

• Nov/2018 OzGrav workshop: Towards O3. Lead organizer, 20 participants from the OzGrav inference program. A software development sprint.

• July/2018 OzGrav workshop: Introduction to Inference. Lead organiser, 33 international participants. Training in Bayesian inference and software development. Identifying new projects across the OzGrav nodes and themes..

Miscellaneous

• Nature Astronomy Community, Behind the Paper: Understanding the rotational evolution of the Vela pulsar during the 2016 glitch

• Institute of Physics, Gravitational Physics Group 2015 newsletter

• M. Franchin et al. Current driven nucleation of domain walls in cylindrical nanowires (2011)

Selected Presentations

• Seminar given at the Cardiff Gravity Exploration Institute Searching and characterizing compact binary coalescence signals: challenges and solutions in real data

• Invited colloqium at the IJCLab on Gravitatational Wave Astronomy: from interferometric strain to astrophysics

• A presentation I have given at a few schools on Inferring the properties of gravitational-wave signals using Bayesian Inference

• Invited to SEPNet workshop Equality, Diversity & Inclusion – Revisiting the leaky pipeline – short-term contracts and career planning. My slides are available here.

• Banff workshop Detection and Analysis of Gravitational Waves in the era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy: From Mathematical Modelling to Machine Learning. You can find a recording here and my slides here.

• Journal club at CAMK in which I presented Flickering of the Vela pulsar.

• Seminar at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, January 2021: The deepening mystery of the Vela radio-pulsar glitch

• GR22/Amaldi13 meeting, Valencia, Spain, July 2019: Gravitational Wave Detection: A Fully Bayesian Approach (contributed)

• IPTA annual meeting, Pune, India, June 2019: Internal neutron-star physics from the 2016 Vela glitch (contributed, remote)

• Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Melbourne, October 2018: Astrophysical inference and transient gravitational wave astronomy (invited)

• ASA Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, June 2018: Multimessenger follow-up of continuous gravitational wave candidates (contributed)

• Australasian pulsar meeting, September 2018: Periodic modulations and a glitch in PSR B1828-11 (remote)

• Institute for Nuclear Theory Workshop INT-18-71W, Astro-Solids, Dense Matter, and Gravitational Waves (April 16 - 20, 2018): Continuous wave parameter estimation and non-standard signal follow up (invited)

• 11th Bonn workshop on Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars, Bonn, Germany, December 2017: Neutron stars as continuous gravitational wave emitters

• Annual NewCompStar Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016: Learning about neutron stars from pulsar precession observations (contributed, best student talk prize)

• Annual NewCompStar Conference, Budapest, Hungary 2015: Comparing different models of pulsar timing noise (contributed)

• BritGrav, Birmingham, UK, 2015: Applying Bayesian data analysis to learn about periodic variability in pulsars (contributed)

• BritGrav, Cambridge, UK, 2014: Gravitational wave searches from noisy neutron stars (contributed, runner up prize for best talk by IoP)

Press

• Interview on Adelaide FiveAA to discuss GW190425, the second binary neutron star event observed by LIGO & Virgo
• Press for Nature Astronomy article "Rotational evolution of the Vela pulsar during the 2016 glitch":
  • The Age: Patient astronomers crack the code of super-dense spinning stars
  • CNET: Astronomers watched a neutron star 'glitch' and can't yet explain it
  • The Register: Mysterious 'glitch' in neutron stars may be down to an itch under the body's surface
  • ABC "Your Afternoon" Helen Shield interviews my excellent co-author Jim Palfreyman
  • Phys.org Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets
  • Astronomy: Astronomers catch a pulsar 'glitching,' offering insights into the strange stars
  • Forbes: A Radio Glitch Reveals The Structure Of A Neutron Star
  • Advocator: Neutron Star Anomaly Revealed More Details On These Mysterious Space Objects
  • ZME Science: Peculiar pulsar slows down before ‘glitching’
  • Futarism: A NEUTRON STAR “GLITCHED” — AND SCIENTISTS NOTICED SOMETHING AMAZING
  • Sci-News: Glitch in Vela Pulsar Provides Unique Opportunity to Study Neutron Star’s Interior
  • Science Daily: Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets
  • Space.com: Weird Star Slows Down Before 'Glitching,' and No One Knows Why
  • Science Alert: Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
  • Live Science: Maybe Neutron Stars 'Glitch Out' So Much Because They're Full of Soup
  • IFLS: A Glitch In A Neutron Star Allowed Astronomers To "Peek" At Its Interior
  • Spektrum: Wenn Neutronensterne aus dem Takt geraten
  • Physics World: Pulsar glitch suggests superfluid layers lie within neutron star
  • SciShow News: August 16 update