About
Self
I read physics. I’m studying for an MSc in Computational Physics at Stockholms Universitet. It’s a fun mix of physics, mathematics, computer science and numerical analysis. I’m currently doing lots of simulation and modelling in Statistical, Atomic and Molecular Physics. I’m happy writing C++ or Ruby in Vim on OS X. I’m in the library at AlbaNova most afternoons.
I write songs. I’m a singer and musician in the folk indie-pop group Empty Set.
Me and Dan at the Deaf Institute, Manchester.
I love adventures. I’m probably happiest climbing the mountains of Snowdonia or kayaking in Stockholms Skärgård.
I live in Stockholm, Sweden. There’s a lot I like about life here: a close abundance of water and forest, intense seasons, beautiful architecture and charming people in one of the fairest societies around. Oh, and delicious kanelbullar.
Surveying a frozen Gamla Stan in January 2010.
Photograph by Fuchsia Macaree.
I was born in Bangor, Wales and home is Manchester, England. I’m very fond of that big funny-shaped island, Great Britain.
I received a BSc honours degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Warwick in 2004. I designed and built bits of water plants as a Graduate Electrical and Control Systems Engineer for Biwater-Anglian Water in Peterborough from 2005 to 2007 and then designed and built bits of database applications as an Oracle Software Developer for Biwater in Manchester from 2007 to 2009.
¹ I don’t always have these things, but I try.
I’m a vegetarian and a humanist. The ideals of humanism were, I think, put best by E.M. Forster¹:
‘Curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste and belief in the human race.’
Most importantly of all, I love Liverpool Football Club. I am also growing rather fond of Djurgården IF — I sit here and admire the clocktower of their 1912 Olympic Stadium through my window when I should be working.
Colophon
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² FF Dagny is the typeface of my Stockholm newspaper of choice, Dagens Nyheter.
Fonts are provided by Typekit. Headers are set in FF Tisa Web Pro by Mitja Miklavcic. Body text is in FF Dagny by Örjan Nordling and Göran Söderström.²
I designed and marked up the site myself. I took inspiration from lovely sites like SimpleBits, Panic Blog, The Ministry of Type, Hicksdesign and probably others I’ve since forgotten. All crappiness is, of course, my own.
