Summary

I am a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, where I work on non-equilbrium quantum-many body dynamics, with a particular interest in circuit-based approaches. I previously completed my PhD at University College London before undertaking a postdoc at the University of Leeds.

Work Experience

• Research Fellow

  2025–present
  University of Nottingham, UK

  Jointly supervised by Adam Gammon-Smith, Juan P. Garrahan, Bruno Bertini, and Igor Lesanovsky. I work on non-equilbrium quantum-many body dynamics, with a particular interest in quantum information, tensor networks, and quantum circuits.
• Research Fellow

  2023–2025
  University of Leeds, UK

  Working with Zlatko Papic and the Theory Group, I researched ergodicity-breaking phenomena such as Hilbert space fragmentation in lattice gauge theories and many-body localisation, using diverse numerical techniques such as exact diagonalisation, tensor networks, perturbation theory, Clifford circuits, and the real-space renormalisation group.

Education

• PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

  2019–2023
  University College London, UK

  • Thesis: Ergodicity breaking and stabilisation of quantum order
  • Supervisor: Arijeet Pal
• MSci. in Natural Sciences

  2015–2019
  University of Cambridge, UK

  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)

  • Master's project: Studying edge states in an eightfold quasicrystal, working with Prof Ulrich Schneider in the AMOP group
  • Summer research project: Working with Claudio Castelnovo, I studied the effects of correlated hopping on the dynamics of classical spin ice using Monte Carlo simulations
• International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)

  2015–2015
  Silver medallist and highest scoring member of the UK team

Publications

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

  2025
  Communications Physics (featured selection)

  Recent works have reported potential disorder-free localization in the lattice Schwinger model. Using degenerate perturbation theory and numerical simulations based on matrix product states, we identify the origin of a claimed ultraslow growth of entanglement as due to an approximate Hilbert space fragmentation and an emergent dynamical constraint on particle hopping

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• Renormalisation view on resonance proliferation between many-body localised phases

  2023
  Physical Review B

  We study the statistical properties of many-body resonances in a disordered interacting Ising chain - which can host symmetry protected topological order - using a Clifford circuit encoding of the real space renormalisation group. We show that both MBL phases present remain stable to resonances, but in the vicinity of the transition between them localisation is destabilised by resonance proliferation.

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

  2021
  Physical Review B

  Quantum many-body scars provide a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states; while coherent edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away from the ground state. We uncover many-body scars and their implications on bulk coherence in such an SPT phase, shedding light on their role in preserving SPT order at finite temperature and the possibility of coherent bulk dynamics in models with SPT order beyond long-lived edge modes.

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Talks and Posters

• Talk: Localisation and Hilbert Space Fracture in Lattice Gauge Theories

  2024
  Bridging the physics and mathematics of quantum many-body chaos, Helsinki
• Poster: Quantum Circuit Analysis of an MBL phase transition

  2024
  International Quantum Tensor Network, Glasgow
• Poster: Renormalisation view on resonance proliferation

  2023
  Quantum Information Processing, Ghent

Teaching

• Various courses

  2020
  University College London, UK

  Role: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

  I taught on a variety of courses, including assisting with computational workshops, marking work, and leading & designing problem-solving tutorial classes.