Experienced research scientist and lecturer in astrophysics with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education sector. Highly skilled in programming, problem solving, data analytics and designing and building databases and web-based applications. Have written ~30 scientific papers and have made a significant contributed to a further 150, all of which have been published in high-impact international journals. Experienced teacher having given physics and astrophysics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervised numerous masters and PhD projects during my time at research institutions in Australia, Germany and the UK. I'm an expert in programming (Python, Perl) and database design and optimisation (MySQL).