See my LinkedIn profile for a more comprehensive CV.
Education
MSc in Geographical Information Systems
University of Aberdeen
2021 — 2022 | Aberdeen, GB
Dissertation in collaboration with Community Energy Scotland: “Mapping the impacts of a proposed offshore wind development plan on Isle of Lewis communities”
MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
2016 — 2017 | Edinburgh, GB
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”
BEng in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
2013 — 2016 | Edinburgh, GB
Honours project: “Fabrication of paper-based microfluidic devices for animal disease detection”
Experience
Research Assistant
University College Cork
May 2022 — present | Cork, IE
Project: ClimAg – Multifactorial causes of fodder crises in Ireland and risks due to climate change
Research Fellow
University of Stavanger
Apr 2018 — Apr 2020 | Stavanger, NO
Project: ENSYSTRA – ENergy SYStems in TRAnsition in the North Sea Region
Technical Intern
Natural Power
May 2017 — Aug 2017 | Stirling, GB
Achievements
Rihards Johansons Prize for Best MSc in GIS Poster
School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
Aug 2021
International Scholarship (valued at GBP 3,000)
Heriot-Watt University
Aug 2016
Software Skills
Programming: Python, R, SQL, Unix shell
GIS & remote sensing: ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL, ERDAS IMAGINE
Relational databases: MySQL/MariaDB, MS Access
Operating systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows
Other: Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, LaTeX, MS Office
Training
Beginners’ Course in Spoken Irish / Cúrsa do Thosnaitheoirí sa Ghaeilge Labhartha
University College Cork
Oct 2022 — present | Cork, IE
Cartography.
Esri
Mar 2022 | Online
Career Mentoring Programme
University of Aberdeen
Mar 2021 — Aug 2021 | Remote
Summer School – Energy Law, Policy, Planning & Governance
University of Groningen
Jul 2019 | Groningen, NL
Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialisation
Imperial College London on Coursera
Feb 2019 | Online
A1 Norwegian Course for Foreigners with Higher Education / Norsk for voksne innvandrere
University of Stavanger
Aug 2018 — Jan 2019 | Stavanger, NO
Workshop – Energy Economics: Markets, Investment & Business
University of Edinburgh
Jan 2019 | Edinburgh, GB
Summer School – Modelling Energy Systems: Setting the Interdisciplinary Stage
Europa-Universität Flensburg
Sep 2018 | Flensburg, DE
Workshop – Introduction to Energy Systems in Transition in the North Sea Region
University of Groningen
Apr 2018 | Groningen, NL
Blue Growth Summer School
Ghent University
Sep 2017 | Ostend, BE
Activities
Reviewer
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
Nov 2019 — present
Contributor
Wikimedia Foundation
May 2014 — present
Translator
Crowdfight COVID-19
Apr 2020