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