I'm Jessica — 25 years old, excessive reader, lover of games (both of the video and board nature), and aspiring renaissance woman. Professionally, I am a 4th year Ph.D. student at University College London, based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. I'm a cosmologist working towards answering the burning questions we have about dark matter. I do this by focusing on weak gravitational lensing, and I develop machine learning methods for solving the inverse problem of mass-mapping. I work with high-dimensional astrophysical data, and I've honed expertise in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Bayesian uncertainty quantification, and regularised generative modelling.
Pure maths, statistics, and coding are my passions. Post-Ph.D. I'm aiming to transition into quantitative research, where I can combine my love of mathematics with my experience in machine learning.
I love hearing from people, so if you're interested in what I do, have any questions, or would like to collaborate, please do get in touch! The button on the top right has my contact details.
Outside of my academic life, I enjoy pursuing an ever-increasing number of hobbies. I'm a long-time musician playing the harp and violin and currently perform with the Woking Symphony Orchestra. (Fun fact: I was going to pursue music professionally before I chose to study theoretical physics!) Other established hobbies include reading (fantasy, SF, translated literature etc.), bouldering, and the aerial arts.
Title: The Way of Kings
Author: Brandon Sanderson
If you read high fantasy you've likely already heard of this book. 1,100 pages long and it couldn't be long enough! Sanderson is the king of rule-bound magic systems and intricate world-building. It's impossible not to get lost in the worlds he creates.