Experience
Scientific Officer II
Environmental Protection Agency Ireland | Wexford, IE
Nov 2024 — Present
Research Assistant
University College Cork | Cork, IE
May 2023 — Nov 2024
Project: H-Wind – Hydrogen from Offshore Wind
Funding: Science Foundation Ireland, ESB, DP Energy, Gas Networks Ireland, and Equinor
May 2022 — May 2023
Project: ClimAg – Multifactorial causes of fodder crises in Ireland and risks due to climate change
Funding: Environmental Protection Agency – Climate Change Research Programme; Higher Education Authority – COVID-19 research support scheme
Research Fellow
University of Stavanger | Stavanger, NO
Apr 2018 — Apr 2020
Project: ENSYSTRA – ENergy SYStems in TRAnsition in the North Sea Region
Funding: European Union – Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme – Marie Skłodowska‐Curie Actions
Education
University of Aberdeen | Aberdeen, UK
2021 — 2022
MSc in Geographical Information Systems
Dissertation in collaboration with Community Energy Scotland: “Mapping the impacts of a proposed offshore wind development plan on Isle of Lewis communities”
Heriot-Watt University | Edinburgh, UK
2016 — 2017
MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering
Industry-based dissertation in collaboration with Natural Power: “Specification of ‘normal’ wind turbine operating behaviour for rapid anomaly detection: through the use of machine learning algorithms”
2013 — 2016
BEng in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
Technical Skills
- Programming & data analysis: Python, R, GitHub, GitLab, JupyterLab, SQL, Microsoft Excel
- Geospatial software: ArcGIS products, QGIS, CDO
- Typesetting & documentation: LaTeX, Microsoft Office suite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sphinx
- Operating Systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux
Language Skills
- English: Fluent
- Malay: Fluent
- Tamil: Intermediate
- Norwegian (Bokmål): Basic; completed the A1 Norwegian Course for Foreigners with Higher Education (Norsk for voksne innvandrere) in Stavanger in 2019
- Irish: Basic; completed the Beginners’ Course in Spoken Irish (Cúrsa do Thosnaitheoirí sa Ghaeilge Labhartha) in Cork in 2023
Training
- Research Skills Training Programme (Continuing Professional Development) – University College Cork, IE (2023)
- Cartography. – Esri, Online (2022)
- Career Mentoring Programme – University of Aberdeen, UK (2021)
- Energy Law, Policy, Planning & Governance – University of Groningen, NL (2019)
- Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialisation – Imperial College London on Coursera, Online (2019)
- Energy Economics: Markets, Investment & Business – University of Edinburgh, UK (2019)
- Modelling Energy Systems: Setting the Interdisciplinary Stage – Europa‐Universität Flensburg, DE (2018)
- Introduction to Energy Systems in Transition in the North Sea Region – University of Groningen, NL (2018)
- Blue Growth Summer School – Ghent University, BE (2017)
Activities
- Reviewer – Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
- eBirder – Cornell Lab of Ornithology