I became a scientist because researchers engaged in outreach and mentoring. Giving back, I have written popular articles, demoed live experiments, delivered public talks, and hosted schools to share the excitement of science with a broad audience. I am committed to mentoring students and those from under-represented backgrounds to foster a supportive research environment in which we can succeed together.
I was a facilitator for the first-generation/low-income roundtable during the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) at NYU in January 2025. I co-ordinated discussions with physics undergraduates from under-represented socioeconomic and gender demographics, affirming experiences while providing advice on overcoming challenges for a career in physics.
"Scientists propose 'BREAD' experiment to find particles of mysterious dark matter". I was interviewed by the UChicago News team about my paper proposing a new axion dark matter experiment.
"ATLAS observes pairs of tau particles in heavy-ion collisions". With the ATLAS Outreach team, I co-authored a news article for the wider audience on the observation of tau lepton pairs produced in heavy-ion collisions.
"The LHC as a photon collider". I co-authored a news article for non-experts about new experimental results on photon collisions. This was published online in August 2020 and in print for the September/October 2020 issue of this high-energy physics magazine.
"Looking forward: ATLAS measures proton scattering when light turns into matter". In coordination with the ATLAS Outreach team, I co-authored a short online news article for non-experts about my research on the ATLAS Forward Proton detector.
I was invited to give a Pint of Science talk at Manchester on 20 May 2019 about dark matter searches at the Large Hadron Collider. I spoke to an audience on a sell-out evening at the Beer Nouveau brewery, providing an informal setting to discuss science away from the lecture hall to reach a wider audience.
In February 2016, I was selected to give an inspirational talk to a wide general audience across the arts and sciences about dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider. This was part of the annual Catz Exchange event that celebrates the diversity of student research undertaken at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
I was the lead author of an outreach article published in The Conversation that covers research developments across disciplines. I worked with science journalists to highlight the release of our tau magnetic moment paper in ATLAS, and explain its significance and physics to wider readership.
In February 2018, I welcomed my alma mater Mill Hill County High School 6th Form physics students and teachers to CERN on their first school trip here since first LHC beams. Showing them round, I hoped to give a sense of what life is like at CERN, dispell myths about being a scientist and how they might follow a similar path in the sciences after school.
I have run live demos of a cloud chamber, plasma ball, used lego and particle zoo toys to share great conversations with the wider public about particle physics at several community engagement events:
Oxfordshire Science Festival, Broad Street, 26 June 2016. This is an annual event run by Science Oxford. Our stall was on a high footfall stretch of Broad Street at the centre of Oxford city attracting children and adults alike.
Out of this World: Family Fun Day, Templars Square Shopping Centre, 17 April 2016. This was a new initiative by the Widening Participation efforts in Oxford to engage the local community with historically low participation and representation at university.
Oxford Stargazing Live 2016, Denys Wilkinson Building, 16 January 2016. This was part of the highly popular annual event run by Oxford Astrophysics that draws over 1000 members of the public to the department throughout the day.I discussed the physics of the gravitational force to an audience of undergraduates interested in mathematics as part of the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford in 2014.
I was invited as a guest speaker to a multidisciplinary conference of graduate students at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Here, I presented my research and also gave career perspectives as a postdoctoral scientist to this broad audience.
A 20 minute overview talk of my research in the Cavendish ATLAS group "Dark matter and collossal colliders" to a general multidisciplinary audience. This is part of an annual all-day symposium organised by a college student-run science society in Cambridge.
A collaboration between the University of Oxford and Institute of Research in Schools allowed secondary school students to help search for exotic particles through the citizen science Zooniverse project. I discussed the scientific process, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, and particle physics behind their projects with the students in small groups.
In March 2017, I coauthored a semi-popular level essay surveying the varied roles of information in fundamental physics to biology.
In May 2016, I wrote the inaugural article for the PSI Blog, consisting of a popular level overview on the theoretical phyiscs of 'continuous-spin particles'.
I was invited to give the closing presentation at the Flash Talk Physics event in December 2013 on the physics of the violin.
