PhD
Theoretical Physics

University of Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

2009 - 2006

• Thesis: Applications of the Octet Baryon Quark-Meson Coupling Model to Hybrid Stars https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1001.4318

Bachelor of Science, Honours
Physics & Theoretical Physics

University of Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

2005 - 2002

Postdoc

Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter

University of Adelaide

2013 - 2009

• Dense matter nuclear astrophysics, hybrid stars
• Muonic hydrogen spectroscopy, “the proton radius puzzle”

Senior Research Software Engineer

Human Immunology Biosciences (HI-Bio)

South San Francisco (remote)

Current - 2022

• Development of internal tooling supporting translational science, antibody discovery, and infrastructure.
• R (shiny), Python, Docker, AWS, Benchling, clinical trials

Editor

RWeekly

rweekly.org

Current - 2016

• Compliation, curation, and editing of the rweekly.org newsletter

Principal Consultant

Irregularly Scheduled Programming

Adelaide, South Australia

Current - 2015

• Independent contractor / consultant (ABN: 43486039320)

Technical Lead / co-Product Owner

Cancer Immunology Department @ Genentech / Roche

South San Francisco, CA, USA (remote)

2022 - 2021

• Coordinated development of a large shiny app project for interactive exploration of genomics visualisation, aimed at life-scientists without coding experience. Remotely directed a team of 10 developers located worldwide.
• R (shiny), CSS, JavaScript, HTML, SQL/SQLite, Docker, Git, database management, statistics, computational biology/genomics, management, agile scrum, leadership

Data Curator / Integrator & Software Developer

Cancer Immunology Department @ Genentech / Roche

South San Francisco, CA, USA (remote)

2022 - 2017

• Developed software tooling supporting extraction and integration of multiple high-dimensional data modalities for FAIRification of internal data (MultiAssayExperiment / DataMart).
• R (Bioconductor, shiny), CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Docker, Git

Senior Research Officer / Fisheries Modeller

South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)

Government of South Australia

2017 - 2013

• Developed and maintained fisheries stock assessment models, spatio-temporal catch rate analyses, and geographic information system tools
• Database management, statistics, biology, and the interface between fishers and government policy
• R, C++ (ADMB), SQL, Microsoft Access

Hyperlink Annotations in JavaScript and CSS

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2023

Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption

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2022

Lissajous Curve Matrix in Julia

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2022

Adventures in x86 ASM with rx86

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2021

isEven without modulo

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2020

r-bugs :: object_size

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2019

Adding strings in R

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2018

{ggeasy} (author, maintainer) CRAN

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• Provides a series of aliases to commonly used but difficult to remember ‘ggplot2’ sequences

{bomrang} (contributor) CRAN

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• Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology (‘BOM’) Data Client

{datapasta} (contributor) CRAN

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• RStudio addins and R functions that make copy-pasting vectors and tables to text painless

{mathpix} (author, maintainer) CRAN

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• Support for the ‘Mathpix’ API (Image to ‘LaTeX’)

{benchlingapi} (author, maintainer) GitHub

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• Wraps the Benchling API for access in R

Natural killer cell educating KIR/HLA combinations impact survival in anti-PD-L1 treated cancer patients

medRxiv

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2022

Genetic variation associated with thyroid autoimmunity shapes the systemic immune response to PD-1 checkpoint blockade

Nature Communications, volume 12, number 3355

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2021

Polygenic risk for skin autoimmunity impacts immune checkpoint blockade in bladder cancer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 117, number 22, 12288–12294

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2020

Beyond Spreadsheets with R

https://www.manning.com/books/beyond-spreadsheets-with-r

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2018

• Manning Publications
• 352 pages

Influence of Wind and Swelloncatch Rates in a Dive Fishery: A Case Study from the South Australian Abalone Fishery

Journal of Shellfish Research, volume 35, number 3, 685-694

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2016

Setting quotas using provisional data: a case study from the South Australian abalone fisheries

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 50, number 3, 371-388

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2016

Spawning biomass of jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) off eastern Australia: Critical knowledge for managing a controversial fishery

Fisheries Research, volume 179, 10-22

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2016

Quark-meson coupling model, nuclear matter constraints, and neutron star properties

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, volume 89, number 6

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2014

Nuclear quasielastic electron scattering limits nucleon off-mass shell properties

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, volume 86, number 6

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2012

Nonperturbative relativistic calculation of the muonic hydrogen spectrum

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, volume 84, number 1

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2011

Toward a resolution of the proton size puzzle

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, volume 84, number 2

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2011

Phase transition from quark-meson coupling hyperonic matter to deconfined quark matter

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, volume 79, number 4

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2009

Neutral pion decay into νν̄ in dense Skyrmion matter

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, volume 71, number 11

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2005