Profile

I am a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this I was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and prior to that a lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash. Before joining Monash in 2008, I was a Royal University Research Fellow in the Astrophysics group of the School of Physics at the University of Exeter, before which I also held a PPARC Postdoctoral Research fellowship at Exeter. I completed my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. My research interests are broadly in Computational Astrophysics, generally involving star and planet formation, accretion discs and the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation method.

Qualifications

• BSc (hons)
• PhD (Cantab)

Science/faith interests

Origins of life, formation of stars and planets, science/faith relationships and understanding of how Christianity and science can work together for common good.

Professional associations

Lifetime Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia