Education

Fitch Learning — U.K.

Professional qualification in quantitative finance, marking the transition from a computational-science / medical-device career into quantitative finance.

Imperial College London — London, U.K.

PhD applying a newly developed sum-of-squares (SOS) optimisation methodology to potential-energy minimisation for small chemical systems, supervised by Prof. Sophia N. Yaliraki.

External examiner. Prof. Pablo A. Parrilo (MIT)

Awards. 1st Prize (Physical Chemistry), Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium — oral, 2005; 1st Prize (Physical Chemistry), Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium — poster, 2004

Funded by. US Office of Naval Research (ONR)

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Imperial College London — London, U.K.

MRes (Distinction) modelling protein-fragment aggregation in Huntington's disease using dissipative particle dynamics (an off-lattice mesoscopic simulation method based on numerical integration of a stochastic differential equation). The project produced a PNAS paper and led directly to a PhD offer.

University of Limerick — Limerick, Ireland

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (2.1 Honours) at the University of Limerick, including co-operative-education placements. Co-op work and the final-year project were completed at C.R. Bard Ltd., leading to a full-time R&D position on graduation.