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I live with a housemate just outside Bath. My journey to work is slightly longer but I like where I live because it’s close to lots of nice footpaths to go for walks and runs.

My favourite TV series are Red Dwarf, Firefly and Only Connect. I attend a pub quiz every week, (we won once!).
I used to play rugby but due to time and injury I now run. I recently completed a half marathon, raising money for mind, it was really tough but the challenge has driven me to want to run more.

I’m a vegetarian and I try to live my life as zero waste as I can. My favorite meal is Tofu stir fry.

My work includes hand written work to investigate the mathematics, writing code to simulate the mathematics and sometimes working in a lab with engineers to investigate the parameters of the model. I also attend lots of seminars and conferences to hear about the new developments happening in applied mathematics.

I also teach undergraduates and often get to go to conferences to present my work.

A normal day in term time would feature a few hours working on code, a few hours working on written maths and a hour either in a research group meeting or a seminar or teaching.

However some days can be full of meetings and talks and some days feature none at all! There’s also the days in the term when I have to do marking.

My favourite days are conference days because it involves talking about new and exciting maths all day!