CV

Employment

  • Research Associate
    School of Chemistry, University of Bristol • May 2025 — Present
    Line Manager: Professor. Adrian Mulholland

  • Research Associate
    University of Bristol • July 2023 — March 2025
    Line Manager: Dr. Marc van der Kamp

  • Web and Digital Support Developer
    Physics of Life Network • February 2023 — August 2023

Education

  • PhD Physics
    University of York • 2019–2023
    Supervisors: Agnes Noy, Mark Leake
    Thesis: “Mechanisms Behind Protein-DNA Interactions Unveiled with Molecular Simulation and Atomic Force Microscopy”
  • BSc (Hons) Theoretical Physics
    University of York • 2016–2019
    Dissertation: “Single ion plasma simulation applying multiple different magnetic confinement techniques”

Funding and Awards

  • Physics of Life Network PDRA Pump Priming Call,
    Physics of Life Network • April 2024
  • Royce Equipment Access Scheme,
    Royce Discovery Centre, University of Sheffield • October 2022
  • W.W. Smith Scholarship,
    University of York • September 2021
  • Royce Equipment Access Scheme,
    Royce Discovery Centre, University of Sheffield • July 2021
  • W.W. Smith Scholarship,
    University of York • September 2020
  • BPSI summer studentship,
    University of York • June 2019
  • Undergraduate Makes A Difference,
    Physics Awards 2019
    University of York • May 2019
  • Most Proactive Stage 3 Student,
    Physics Awards 2019
    University of York • May 2019

Publications

  • Watson GD, Chan EW, Leake MC, Noy A (2022)
    “Structural interplay between DNA-shape protein recognition and supercoiling: the case of IHF”
    Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal  20 5264-5274
    doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2022.09.020
  • Jalal ASB, Tran NT, Stevenson CW, Chan EW, Lo R, Tan X, Noy A, Lawson DM, Le TBK (2020)
    “Diversification of DNA-Binding Specificity by Permissive and Specificity-Switching Mutations in the ParB/Noc Protein Family” Cell Reports  32 107928
    doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107928

Talks

External

Internal

  • Physics Postgraduate Conference 2022
    University of York • September 2022
    Runner up: Best Talk
  • Physics Postgraduate Conference 2021
    University of York • September 2021
  • BPSInet Summer Research Symposium: Interdisciplinary Science at York
    University of York • September 2021
  • Regular Physics of Life Group & Condensed Matter Theory Group meetings
    University of York • 2019–2023

Poster presentations

External

Internal

  • Biophysics of Infection & Immunity Symposium: From Molecules to Cells to Tissues
    University of York • 22 November 2019
  • Physics Postgraduate Conference 2019
    University of York • 26–27 September 2019
  • BPSI Autumn Symposium 2019: Modelling the Ecology of Complex Communities
    University of York • 26 September 2019

Teaching

  • High Performance Computing (PhD/MPhys — Practical Demonstration)
    University of York • 2020–2022
    Provide support and assistance to Masters and PhD students during high performance computing sessions, in which they learn about and program with multiple parallelisation techniques such as openMP and MPI.
  • Advanced Experimental Laboratory (Stage 3 — Practical Demonstration)
    University of York • 2021–2022
    Supervised, guided, and assisted students as they learn how to perform coarse-grained simulations of DNA minicircles under differing amounts of torsional stress and salt concentrations. Involved teaching introduction to Linux, the AMBER MD software suite, and concepts analysis techniques used in real research.
  • Computational Quantum Mechanics (Stage 3 — Practical Demonstration)
    University of York • 2021–2022
    Provide support and assistance to third-year students during computational quantum mechanics sessions.
  • Computational Laboratory (Stage 2 — Practical Demonstration)
    University of York • 2020–2021
    Supervised, guided, and assisted students develop various programs for physical simulation, in Fortran, during second-year computational laboratory.
  • Problem Class Teaching
    University of York • 2019–2020
    • Nuclear Physics II (Stage 3)
    • Mathematics II (Stage 2)