Alumni Career Talks

Alexandra grew up in the tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago, and is now an Assistant Prof in Astrophysics at Princeton University. Alexandra studied at the University of Edinburgh on an Island Scholarship. There, she received a First Class (Hons) undergraduate (MPhys) degree in astrophysics and a PhD with Catherine ...

Michal Tomaszewski graduated with an MPhys in Mathematical Physics from Edinburgh in 2014, followed by a PhD from Cambridge University in 2018. At Cambridge Michal worked on developing a novel photoacoustic imaging technique for measurement of blood vasculature in cancer tumors. His postdoctoral training took him to Moffitt Cancer Center ...

Alison graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Mathematical Physics, and a Master of Engineering degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University. She then held various operational positions with Schlumberger in the Far East, USA, Norway and France, and later several global, senior technology and managerial positions in ...

Joyce Garden graduated with a Bsc in Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh in 1996 and continued to complete a PhD in Lattice QCD on Light Hadron Spectroscopy with quenched and dynamical fermions in 2000. After 18 months as a software engineer in a small startup company contracted to Cisco, she joined ...

Nic’s connection to the Higgs Centre is through an MSc in Theoretical Physics that he completed in 2015, after which he continued to do a PhD with the Scottish Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics. Under the supervision of Patrik Öhberg, and based at Heriot-Watt University, he ...

Brian moved to Edinburgh from Ireland in 2016 for the MSc programme offered by the Higgs centre in Theoretical Physics. Afterwards, he remained in Edinburgh (but moved to the Informatics forum) for a joint MRes/PhD programme in the CDT for Pervasive Parallelism, supervised by Prof. Elham Kashefi. Here, he ...

Chiara Decaroli is originally from a small village in Italy. She fell in love with quantum mechanics during her high school years after reading a book on quantum entanglement which she did not understand. Wanting to dig deeper, she came to the University of Edinburgh for her Bachelors in Physics ...

Ava Khamseh graduated with a PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, under the supervision of Luigi Del Debbio at the Higgs Centre, in 2017 (after also having been an undergraduate degree in Physics at Edinburgh). After a year of postdoc in Prof Chris Ponting’s lab, she became a Cross-Disciplinary Fellow ...

Lettie Roach graduated from the Mathematical Physics MPhys programme at the University of Edinburgh in 2015 and went on to do a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington and a postdoc at the University of Washington in climate physics. She is currently an Associate Research Scientist at NASA GISS in ...

Gavin studied an MPhys Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh and continued to complete a PhD in Particle Theory under the supervision of Thomas Binoth and Gudrun Heinrich looking at (what was at the time) state of the art one-loop calculations. After a postdoc at DESY, Zeuthen, Gavin took up a position ...

Jack was a PhD student and worked at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics with Jenni Smillie, focussing on Z/gamma* emissions in the presence of multiple high energy QCD jets. In 2016, he finished his PhD and went to work at Gambit Research working on building models to trade ...