About me

Hi, I’m Michael, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth. My main research interest is the intersection between gravitational-wave astrophysics, machine learning and Bayesian statistics. I’m also a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, where I hold the role of Parameter Estimation co-chair, and I recently joined the LISA Consortium.

I first got involved in gravitational-wave research as an undergraduate intern working with Chris Messenger in the Institute for Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow. The projected involved training a convolutional neural network to detect gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers.

I then did my PhD with John Veitch and Chris Messenger at the Institute for Gravitational research and focused on developing techniques to accelerate Bayesian inference algorithms for characterizing gravitational-wave signals.