Recent Site Updates

• Follow-up materials from my public talks [updated: 3^rd October 2025].
• Photos, videos & lectures from the March 2026 Hurtigruten Bergen-Kirkenes-Bergen Voyage along the Norwegian coast [updated: 3^rd July 2026].
• Photos, videos & lectures from the March/April 2025 Hurtigruten Bergen-Kirkenes-Bergen Voyage along the Norwegian coast [updated: 6^th July 2025].
• Photos & videos of the 8^th April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse [updated: 21^st February 2025].

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A biography can be found below on my career page.

Current positions:

• Founder & organiser of Soapox Science Brighton
• Co-founder of the Brighton Luminarium science centre concept
• Trustee of the Ensonglopedia theatre charity
• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Member of the Institute of Physics, serving on the IOP South-Central Branch committee.

Previous jobs include:

• Astronomer and educator at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, where I instigated the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
  
• XMM-Newton Space Telescope Calibration Scientist (EPIC-MOS cameras) in the X-ray Astronomy Group of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester.