I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM-CSIC in Madrid.

Long ago, I did my undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, where the web hosting is better, and seemingly perpetual.

Here are some detailed notes accompanying a journal club introduction to Matrix Theory: notes

Here are the slides for an online talk I gave to the TCD Theoretical Physics Society at some point in lockdown in 2020, about what it's like being (trying to be?) a theoretical physicist: slides

Here are some links to research talks I gave, mostly from the golden pandemic age of online talks:

Seminar on ``Solutions from generalised U-duality'', Exceptional Geometry Seminar Series, Feb 2022 - slides and recordings

Review talk on ``Introduction to T/U-duality Invariant Formalisms'', Junior Duality and Integrability workshop, Feb 2021 - slides and recording

Seminar on ``Exploring Exceptional Drinfeld Geometries'', Integrability, Duality and Deformations seminar series, Oct 2020 - slides and recordings

Seminar on ``Non-relativistic duality and TTbar deformations'' - Exceptional Geometry Seminar Series, May 2020 - slides and recording

Overview talk on ``Non-Geometry and Exotic Branes'' at the conference Geometry and Duality in AEI Potsdam, Dec 2019: video and slides.

Gong show talk on ``Orbifolds and Orientifolds as O-folds'' at the conference Strings, July 2019: video (skip to 5 mins 15 secs) and slide.

Once, using the source code for the snarxiv, I built a random talk generator (but have never used it to give a talk. One day...)

As well as various tutorials and exercise classes, I have taught the following courses.

General Relativity

MSc in Physics & Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2019-20 to 2021-22

This is a course on gravity, from the black death to black holes. I made lecture notes.

Introduction to String Theory

Undergraduate and Graduate Summer School, Nesin Mathematics Village, Turkey, 2016

A short (10 hour) summer school course (at this rather unique maths village in Turkey) which I based very closely on Paul Townsend's Cambridge lecture notes. The starting point is just Hamiltonian mechanics. Here are scans of my handwritten lecture notes:

1. Hamiltonian mechanics & relativistic point particle

2. Classical closed strings

3. Classical open strings

4. Quantum open and closed strings

5. Summary and Discussion

Old notes from my undergrad days. Where does the time go?