Teaching
Undergraduate teaching
I held the post of Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Trinity College, Oxford, from 2007-2011, at 30% FTE. I taught the following courses:
- Mathematical Methods I and II: covering differential calculus, complex numbers/analysis, ODEs, linear algebra, vector calculus, waves
- Physics 2: covering the sections on optics and circuit theory
to first-year (Prelims) students in a tutorial setting (5-7 students per year, classes in groups of 2). I was also responsible for college admissions including interviews, ‘collections’ (termly examinations) and pastoral care.
Some testimonials I received from students:
“I use the way you ran tutorials for all my small-group teaching”
Patrick Dunne (at Trinity 2008-12, now UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Imperial College)
“We learned more from your classes than any others in our degree”
Class of 2010, on graduation in 2014
Graduate teaching
I have taught the following PhD-level courses:
- Observational Cosmology: contribution to core PhD course, covering CMB x LSS techniques (SZ, ISW), at ICG Portsmouth, 2017-2020
- Statistical Methods for Cosmic Structures: advanced PhD course (covering spherical collapse, halo mass function, Press-Schechter theory, excursion set model, halo model, void number function) at ICG Portsmouth, 2017
- MCMC methods for cosmology: advanced PhD course at ICG Portsmouth, 2019. A Jupyter notebook containing some of course material used is available here. I also gave lectures covering part of this material at the Les Houches Euclid Advanced School in 2020, slides available here.