Experience

  • Visiting lecturer (2026)
    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa
    Taught the computational neuroscience part of a graduate course in Neuro AI

  • Post-doctoral fellow (2022 - 2025)
    Institute of Science and Technology, Austria (ISTA)
    Researched connectome-dynamics relationships as member of the Vogels Lab

  • Research engineer (2016 - 2017)
    French Space Agency (CNES), University of Toulouse, France
    Inverse modelling of satellite observations of the Greenland Ice Sheet to infer subglacial drainage properties

  • Research assistant and sessional instructor (2011 - 2015)
    University of British Columbia, Canada
    Researched subglacial drainage models and taught undergraduate geoscience and applied math courses

  • Tutor (2010 - 2011)
    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa
    Tutored graduate students in mathematical and computational methods in the AIMS structured master’s program

  • Project scientist (2009 - 2010)
    JASCO Applied Sciences, Canada
    Developed computational models for ocean acoustic wave propagation


Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth System Science (2022)
    University of Zürich, Switzerland
    Supervisor: Andreas Vieli

  • M.Sc. in Mathematics (2008)
    University of Victoria, Canada
    Supervisor: Boualem Khouider

  • B.Sc. (Hon.) in Mathematics (2004)
    University of Victoria, Canada


Methods and skills

  • Numerical PDEs, dynamical systems and network analysis, scientific computing in Python and Matlab, inverse problems, computational neuroscience pipelines.