About me

I am interested in non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics - in particular, ergodicity breaking (where matter taken out of equilibrium fails to thermalise), such as when strong quenched disorder is applied to an interacting system to localise it. I have also recently been studying fragmentation in lattice gauge theories and tensor network methods. At Nottingham, where I work jointly with Adam Gammon-Smith, Juan P. Garrahan, Bruno Bertini, and Igor Lesanovsky, I will be taking these themes and combining them with a quantum circuit perspective.

Publications

Hilbert space fragmentation at the origin of disorder-free localization in the lattice Schwinger model

Commun. Phys. 8, 172 (2025) (Featured Selection)

Renormalization view on resonance proliferation between many-body localized phases

Phys. Rev. B 108, 094205 (2023)

Quantum scars and bulk coherence in a symmetry-protected topological phase

Phys. Rev. B 104, 014424 (2021)

Employment

2025 - present: Postdoc, University of Nottingham

Working with Dr. Adam Gammon-Smith, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr. Bruno Bertini, and Prof. Igor Lesanovsky on quantum circuits and non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics.

2023 - 2025: Postdoc, University of Leeds

Working with Prof. Zlatko Papic on lattice gauge theories and many-body localisation

Education

2019 - 2023: PhD, University College London

Thesis: Ergodicity breaking and stabilisation of quantum order

Supervisor: Prof. Arijeet Pal

2015 - 2019: MSci., University of Cambridge

Achieved a high first in all four years, including top first in Part II, for which I was awarded the Hartree & Clerk Maxwell Prize and the Ver Heyden de Lancey Prize.