Who Am I

I'm an engineer who has learnt to transform ambitious ideas into real, test-driven hardware. My work has spanned rovers, rockets, drones, med-tech and particle accelerator engineering. I've taken projects from early requirements through to feasibility analysis, design, CAD, simulation/modelling, manufacture, and validation — with a focus on reliability, clear engineering thinking, and flair where possible.

For two years at university, my mother battled cancer — and alongside my degree I helped my family through that reality while still pushing forward academically and technically. That experience strengthened how I lead and how I work: with consistency, empathy, and a calm head under pressure.

At my core, I'm motivated by my responsibility to build things that change the world, to communicate ideas clearly, and to use engineering as a practical tool for societal good — whilst continuously growing as an engineer myself.

Education

Engineering Projects

CERN — Mechanical Manipulator for Beam Wire Scanners  Jun–Aug 2025

CERN INTERNSHIP · CATIA · ANSYS FEA · PROTOTYPE MANUFACTURE

Designed a purely mechanical 2m tall, 6 Degrees of Freedom manipulator for installing new-generation linear beam wire scanners into the Large Hadron Collider — which could not be installed due to space constraints. Created CAD in CATIA, validated stresses via hand calcs and ANSYS FEA, manufactured a fully functioning 1:1 prototype, and developed a Python script that digitised operation and performed automatic centre of mass calculations. Machine installed in LHC Q4 2025.

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Full BWS Manipulator CAD

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Working on prototype test-bench

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Linear Beam Wire Scanner CAD

B2Space — World-First Sustainable Rocket Fuel  Oct 2024–Mar 2025

WORLD RECORD · CATIA · SPIN-CASTING · CFRP LAYUPS · HOT-FIRE TESTING

Led development of world-first sustainable rocket fuel with B2Space. Designed and manufactured a new spin-casting rig (CATIA), cast 8 fuel grains (PLA-armoured rapeseed & beeswax blends), and ensured 8 successful biofuel burns at Snowdonia Aerospace hot-fire test using the hybrid-aerospike engine 'Hornet'. Rapeseed wax had never previously been fired as a rocket fuel — a genuine world first.

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My spin-cast rig design

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Molten beeswax spun into fuel grain

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Hornet test stand in Wales

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Team dissecting engine post-fire

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Beeswax hot-fire Mach diamonds

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Pre & post-fire fuel grain

Marble Aero — Humanitarian UAVs  Ongoing

UAV · AUTONOMOUS HANGARS · ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING · AVIONICS · NDA

Cover-all engineer for a start-up designing UAVs for humanitarian missions — including anti-drug-trafficking in Costa Rica, ice-cap mapping in Greenland & Canada, and maritime monitoring in Uruguay. Involved in mechanical design, manufacturing (MK14 drones via additive manufacturing), avionics, and flying. Complete design, electronics, manufacture, and deployment of autonomous drone hangars (NDA restricted).

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MK12 being flown in Canada

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Final modifications on MK14

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MK13 testing in Greenland

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My hangar in Greenland (NDA blurred)

Bath Rocket Team — "Condor" at EuRoC 2024  Sep 2023–Jul 2025

PROJECT LEAD · FEA · CFD · ANSYS FLUENT · AIRBRAKES · PAYLOAD

Project Lead for BRT — reverse-engineered rocket systems, conducted FEA & CFD in ANSYS on airbrakes to minimise drag, prepared engine 'YellowJacket' for hot-fire test, designed and manufactured cloud-seeding payload, and developed the ground station. Competed at EuRoC 2024 in Portugal.

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Fully manufactured 'Condor'

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YellowJacket engine hot-fire

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Condor parachute deployment test

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GFRP fuselage manufacture

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Team photo at ERC Portugal

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Cloud seeding payload design

Team Bath Roving — National Champions  Nov 2022–Jul 2024

PROJECT LEAD · NATIONAL WINNER · 6 ROVER DESIGNS · ROBOTIC ARM · ANSYS

Elected youngest-ever project lead. Designed and manufactured ~6 Mars/lunar rovers, including scissor-jack lifts and 5 DoF robotic arms. Won the 2024 AIRBUS National Olympus Rover Challenge on a £300 budget against teams with 10× more funding. Grew team from 4 to 36 members for international competitions.

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All rover designs + RAL Space

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Camera arm mechanisms

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AIRBUS Mars Yard competition

MEng Thesis — CERN ELISA Modular Analysis Rig  Nov 2025–Present MASTERS THESIS

CERN · PARTICLE PHYSICS · PIXE · ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE · MANUFACTURE

My MEng thesis, conducted at CERN, involved designing a micrometre-resolution modular analysis rig for ELISA — CERN's Experimental Linear Accelerator for Surface Analysis — a portable particle accelerator. The rig was used to characterise BTV (Beam TV) screens using Proton-Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) to quantify elemental impurities, providing critical data for the design of future high-energy particle accelerators and beam diagnostics systems.

The project spanned the full engineering lifecycle independently: electronic architecture and control system design, mechanical design and CAD, software development for automated data acquisition, manufacture, calibration, and a detailed test campaign. The rig is now permanently installed into ELISA and will be used across testing, research, and demonstrations for the next 3 years — a genuinely lasting contribution to CERN's instrumentation infrastructure.

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Labelled drawing of final rig

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Performing ELISA calibration

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Initial testing after installation

Awards & Scholarships

• · IET Future Talent Scholarship — Awarded for demonstrating engineering excellence in the face of great adversity (Dec 2025)
• · Royal Academy of Engineering — Engineering Leaders Scholarship — 1 of 38 recipients from thousands of applicants. Using funding to design a solid motor rocket targeting the N-class altitude world record (Mar 2024)
• · BAE Systems Arkwright Scholar — Selected after yearlong process; grant invested into building a personal 3D printer (Oct 2020)
• · AIRBUS National Olympus Rover Challenge 2024 — Winners, £300 budget vs teams with 10× more funding
• · TEDxBathUniversity — Headlined with speech "The Fragility of Ambition" (selected from 3 rounds of auditions)

Additional Experience

• · Team Bath Racing Electric (Formula Student) — Mechanical Analysis & Design Engineer; CFD & FEA across the car (Sep 2025–Present)
• · Royal Academy of Engineering & IET — STEM outreach and widening participation work
• · Grade 8 Speech & Drama (LAMBDA) — Honed communication and leadership skills
• · Volunteering — Homelessness campaigns in Milton Keynes; fundraising for Malosa Secondary School, Malawi
• · 35 countries backpacked — buses, trams, and hostels; learning adaptability and cultural awareness

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