Academic biography

Since January 2022, I am a lecturer in the School of Enterprise and Irish at Dublin City University. The Irish language is the primary mode of communication within the school, which offers degree programmes in subjects including Business, Education and the Arts.

I graduated from the University of Galway in 2012 with a PhD in mathematics, in algebraic combinatorics studying group actions on Hadamard matrices and related topics. I spent the following ten years abroad: I worked as a postdoc at the University of Queensland and Monash University from 2012 to 2015. Under the supervision of Prof Darryn Bryant and Dr Daniel Horsley, I investigated applications of design theory to compressed sensing (a new approach to signal processing). For the year 2015-16, I was at Aalto University working with Prof Petteri Kaski in the Department of Computer Science and Prof Camilla Hollanti in the Department of Mathematics. We worked on the complexity of certain nearest neighbour problems and applications of combinatorics to private communication. In the period 2016-21, I was an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where I taught a range of courses in discrete mathematics and algebra from early undergraduate through to advanced postgraduate level. I was awarded the 2015 Kirkman Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications at the CanaDAM conference held in Toronto in June 2017.