I studied for my PhD at the University of Warwick, where I was based in the interdisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems, working under the supervision of Prof. Julie B. Staunton (Theory Group, Department of Physics). My research there focussed on developing approaches for modelling the thermodynamics and phase stability of multicomponent alloys, with a particular focus on high-entropy alloys and magnetic materials.

Following my PhD, I spent some time working at a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, based in the same group as for my PhD but this time working in collaboration with experimental groups at Northeastern University (USA) and the University of Delaware (USA) on the development of candidate materials suitable for applications as rare-earth-free and rare-earth-lean permanent magnets.

In the Summer of 2024, I was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at the University of Bristol. Here, my research focuses on utilising first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and atomistic simulations to examine various aspects of the physics of materials hosting chemical and/or magnetic disorder.