Alumni Career Talk with Eoin Ó Raghallaigh

Eoin moved to Edinburgh from Ireland in 2016 for a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics with Richard Blythe and Martin Evans, studying the differential equations behind bird flocking and how flocks turn. He also co-lead outreach activities for his Centre for Doctoral Training, developing skills that have helped him during his later career. During his PhD, he interned at the Scottish Government, reviewing and updating a workforce planning model for post-graduate teacher education places. When his PhD ended, he returned to the Scottish Government as an Assistant Statistician working on workforce diversity statistics and now works as a Statistician leading on workforce analytics.