I am an engineer and educator specialising in embedded systems, digital electronics, and photon counting systems. I have over 15 years of experience in photon counting and almost 10 years of experience in teaching.
I started my research career at the University of Bristol as a PhD student by developing novel high-speed and high-resolution timing instruments for the Quantum Key Distribution systems being developed, primarily the “cheap and cheerful” BB84 system and the reference frame independent system that was developed in conjunction with Nokia. After this work on QKD systems, work focused on creating generic photon counting instruments for use in primarily in quantum optics experiments and LiDAR, with this research resulting in a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise fellowship being awarded.
Work has since focused on multi-channel time taggers, hardware random number generators, real-time TCSPC imaging electronics and systems and novel hardware for photon number resolving detectors.
Regarding teaching, I have Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), mostly for my work on project/problem based learning and quality assurance. In addition to this, teaching feedback is typically rated >4.5/5 and I was awarded the Student Staff Partnership Award from Aston Student’s Union in 2019 for my work on improving the student experience in the final year.
Outside of research and teaching, I’m interested in remote control car speed running (top speed achieved so far is 127MPH), audio amplifiers and classic cars. I will also be documenting my hobby projects on this site.
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