I am a theoretical particle physicist. I work on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) - the theory of the strong nuclear force using numerical simulations to make predictions of particle properties. In the last decade experimental discoveries have challenged our understanding of how constituent particles are configured in short-lived composites and my research is focused on explaining this puzzle and explaining the new strong exotic matter. A second avenue of investigation is QCD at finite temperature - to investigate the properties of the quark-gluon plasma: conditions that existed in the earliest moments of the universe. I am a founding member of two international collaborations and together we are exploiting some of the world's most powerful supercomputers to answer fundamental questions about the matter in our universe.
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You can find information about my research interests from my list of publications |
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The Hadron Spectrum Collaboration: The spectroscopy of excited and exotic QCD states. My research focus is on mesons with charm and bottom quarks.
The FASTSUM Collaboration: Finite temperature QCD - matter in extreme conditions.
Including recent code development - an extension of openQCD: openQCD-FASTSUM supported by an ICHEC and EuroCC Academic Flagship award
EuroPLEx A new Marie Sklowdowska-Curie ITN: Particle Physics, Lattice Field Theory and Extreme Computing
Some recent conferences and workshops:
Program co-Chair of the 17th IEEE eScience2021 conference
Co-organiser in 2021: Delighted to announce an ECT* workshop on Real-time Challenges in Strongly Correlated Systems. Watch on the ECT* YouTube channel
Co-Chair of PASC20 Postponed to 2021 in virtual format: Find all information and recordings at PASC21
Co-organiser of Lattice Methods for the 2020s a HMI workshop in December 2019.
Local organiser of Confinement 2018 held in Ireland
Join my group:
I have a Hamilton Scholar funded PhD position available.
Announcing a new fully supported PhD position, jointly supervised with IBM Dublin focused on lattice QCD simulation science.
Other opportunities:
The Irish Research Council has annual calls for funded post-doctoral and PhD positions. Email me to find out more and discuss a project.
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Useful HEP and Nuclear Physics links
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Useful HPC links
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