Service/Outreach

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Newcastle University School of Computing EDI Lead (Students); APS Forum on Diversity and Inclusion (FDI) Executive Committee Member-at-Large 2024/25; APS Career Mentoring Fellow 2023/24; QETLabs DEI Committee Member 2022/23

In the Media: Interviewed for and mentioned/quoted in four New Scientist cover stories (12th May 2021; 12th February 2024; 4th September 2024; 11th January 2025); Quoted in Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft/Spektrum.de; Featured on Hiroshima TV’s Nightly News Programme (4th Dec 2023); Work mentioned/quoted in articles on online science news sites (including VICE, IFLScience, Phys.org, and Heise/c’t).

Committee and Policy Work: Collaboration with Labour Tech on white paper on Investment in Quantum Technologies (to be published mid-2025);
Contributor to POSTNote on Quantum Technologies (to be published mid-2025); IOP QQQ Group Committee Ordinary Member 2025–28; DSIT/IOP Quantum Skills Taskforce Workshop Member (10/5/2024)

Conference Organising: IOP Photon 2026 Conference Co-Chair; IOP QuAMP 2025 Organising Committee Member; Newcastle Post-Quantum Security and Quantum Technologies Workshop (NEWTON-Q) 2025 Organising Committee Member; APS April Meeting 2024 Undergraduate Poster and Talk Reviewer; IOP Photon 2026 Conference Co-Chair; APS April Meeting 2024 Undergraduate Poster and Talk Reviewer; APS March Meeting Division of Quantum Information Abstract Sorter (2025, 2024); BQIT:22 Programme Committee Lead and Conference Board Member

Conference Sessions Chaired (10): APS Global Physics Summit 2025 (VIR-K01: Quantum Information Processing; VIR-G05: Virtual Poster Session II; VIR-A08: Virtual Undergraduate Research I); APS April Meeting 2024 (DD03 V: Data Science and AI/ML in Physics; JJ01 V: Forums & GPER II); APS March Meeting 2024 (PP01 V: Quantum Annealing and Quantum Foundations; AA06 V: General Physics; NN00 Virtual Poster Session III); Bonn Superdeterminism and Retrocausality Workshop 2022; BQIT:22

Journal Editorship: Journal of Physics Communications Editorial Board Member; Journal of Physics: Photonics Guest Editor (Focus Issue on Photonics for Quantum Foundations)

Peer Reviewer (70): Nature Communications (2); British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1); Quantum (2); npj Quantum Information (3); APL Quantum (1); New Journal of Physics (4); Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (3); Quantum Science and Technology (10); Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (1); Journal of Physics: Photonics (1); Optics Letters (1); Physical Review Research (3); Physica Scripta (5); Scientific Reports (6); Foundations of Physics (5); Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2); Reports on Progress in Physics (1); Materials for Quantum Technology (2); American Journal of Physics (3); Modern Physics Letters A (1), Optical and Quantum Electronics (1); Journal of Physics Communications (4), European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1), IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2), Physical Review A (3).

I’ve passed the IOP’s Peer Review Excellence Programme, Optica’s Reviewer Certification Course, and Nature Masterclasses Focus on Peer Review Course. I was awarded Institute of Physics Trusted Reviewer status in 2021, and was a Quantum Science and Technology Outstanding Reviewer 2024.

Outreach: Sigma Xi High School Student Research Showcase 2024 Judge; Guest Quantum Scientist, The Quantum Horse: The Pantomime; Guest Speaker, It’s About Time Podcast; Interviewee, Quantum City Interview Series (run by UK National Quantum Technologies Programme)

Grant Reviews (8): EPSRC Peer Review College Member; British Council ISPF College of Reviewers Member (8)