--- layout: archive title: "CV" permalink: /cv/ author_profile: true redirect_from: - /resume --- {% include base_path %} Education --------- * 2018 - 2021 [Ph.D in Condensed Matter Theory][phd], 2021 (expected), Imperial College London * Topic: Disorder Free Localisation in the 1D Falikov-Kimball Model * Supervisor: Dr Johannes Knolle * EPSRC Project N. [2120140][projectnumber] * 2018 [M.Sc Thesis][msc], Natural Sciences,Trinity College, Cambridge * Title: Imaging Magnetic Phenomena with Scanning Diamond Magnetometry * Supervisor: Professor Mete Atatüre * 2014–2018 Physics, Natural Sciences M.Sc & B.Sc, Trinity College, Cambridge * Third Year: First (77%) Rank: 23/155 * Second Year: First (78%) Rank: 73/582 * First Year: High 2.1 (67%) [phd]: /portfolio/1_phd/ [msc]: /portfolio/2_msc/ [projectnumber]: https://gtr.ukri.org/project/145404DD-ABAD-4CFB-A2D8-152A6AFCCEB7#/tabOverview Work experience ------------------- * 2018 Summer School on Collective Behaviour in Quantum Matter, ICTP, Trieste * 2017 [CERN Summer Studentship][cern], CMS HGCAL Sensor Characterisation, CERN * 3 months as a CERN summer student, helping to design a high volume electronic measurement processfor prototypes of 8 inch silicon sensors that will be used in a planned upgrade to the CMS endcap Calorimeter in the LHC. My time was split between working in a clean room on the measurement setup, analysing the data and attending a 6 week lecture course on High Energy Physics. * 2016 University of Birmingham, Atomic Force Microscopy Summer Project, Birmingham * Month long research placement with Professor Wolfgang Theis, designing a novel quartz tuning fork based atomic force microscope that relies on detecting resonance shifts to map out surface topographyand dissipation. * 2012–2014 [FizzPOP][fizzpop]: The Birmingham Makerspace, Director, Birmingham * FizzPOP is a community based workshop and social enterprise that fosters small technology and design projects. As one of the 5 founding directors I helped take it from a small group meeting in a borrowed space to a thriving community of more than 30 members with well equipped workshops and regular events. * 2013 Department for International Development, Paid Hackathon, London * A paid hackathon for DFID as one of a team of developers. The goal was to implement novel uses and visualisations of large quantities of aid data that DFID has accrued. Our project revolved around using natural language processing to look at online conversations and decide which data was most contextually relevant to that conversation [cern]: /portfolio/3_cern/ [fizzpop]: https://fizzpop.org.uk/ Skills ------ * Highly proficient in the Python/Numpy/Scipy scientific stack * Wider programming knowledge of Julia, C++/C and Javascript * Highly mathematically literate * Built a 3D printer from scratch. * Extensive experience using [Fusion 360][fusion], [OpenSCAD][openscad] and [custom code](vasegen) to generate parts to print on it. [fusion]: http://a360.co/2BjJ0z3 [openscad]: https://github.com/TomHodson/Raspberry-Pi-OpenSCAD-Model [vasegen]: https://github.com/TomHodson/VaseExtruder Teaching ---------- * 2021 PyProblems * Composed a set of python problems for a final year General Relativity course focussed on raytraving geodesics through the Schwarzschild metric. * 2020-2021 Interdisciplinary Research Computing, Teaching Assistant, Imperial * Teaching students effective software development methods including git and HPC use. * 2018-2019 Computational Physics,Teaching Assistant, Imperial * Demonstrated for the third year Computational Physics course, helping students realise complex physics based programming projects in Python. * 2019 1st Year Electronics Labs, Teaching Assistant, Imperial * 2014-Private Tutoring * I’ve tutored privately for many years, covering Physics and Maths at all levels along with Computer Science, Chemistry and Biology at GCSE and current aided one student with a financial modelling course. Talks ------ Publications ------------- {% comment %} Projects ------ Teaching --------- {% endcomment %} Service and leadership ----------------------- * 2020–2021 [Physics Departmental Postgraduate Representative][pgrep], Imperial College London * I’m one of the two postgrad representatives for the Physics department at Imperial. * 2019–2020 CMTH Postgraduate Representative, Imperial College London * Acted as the postgrad representative for my research group at Imperial. * 2014-2017 Cambridge Student Community Action (SCA), President of Steering Group, Cambridge * President of the student steering group of the charity SCA, which runs volunteering projects for young people and the elderly in the local area. I also volunteer as a mentor to a teenager and an 11 year old meeting each once a week, helping with homework and fostering their interests. * 2016–2017 Physics Class Representative, Cambridge * Responsible for liaising between my fellow students, the administration and course professors to improve the curriculum [pgrep]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201126073809/https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/your-union/your-representatives/a-to-z/physics-pg Outreach --------- * 2020 [Collective Misbehaviour][poem], Imperial College London * An interactive web based poetry collaboration with [Dan Simpson][dan], the then poet-in-residence at Imperial College London. you can read an article about the project [here][poemarticle]. * 2019 [Profile for Imperial's LGBTQ+ Group][imp600], Imperial College London [poem]: https://tomhodson.github.io/PoemProject/ [dan]: https://www.dansimpsonpoet.co.uk/#/collective-misbehaviour/ [imp600]: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/staff-networks/imperial-600/meet-our-members/tom-hodson/ [poemarticle]: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/210833/imperials-research-through-poetic-lens/ Competitions ------------- * 2021 Creativity Sandpit * Pitched an accessible Android OS for the elderly to very positive reception from the judges. * DigiFAB and FoNS Data Science Datathon * Led a winning team of PhD students on [this challenge][datathon] to predict crystal structure and packing density from chemical structure data. Used a variety of techniques including recent advances in graph neural network techniques to win the competition. * MSF Makeathon * Designed and prototyped an inflatable mattress to reduce pressure sores for patients in field hospitals. [datathon]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234129/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/218853/digifab-fons-data-science-datathon-competition/