Hello 👋

I'm Ed, a PhD student at the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) in Cambridge. I work on machine learning for science. My main science-side focus right now is exoplanets and the search for alien life 🤖🪐. I have wider interests in ML and science too — foundation models for science looks pretty promising! And (Earth) climate is cool! My primary supervisor is Miles Cranmer.

Background

I was born and grew up in London and did my undergrad then masters in Astrophysics at Cambridge. I briefly dipped into finance with an internship at Jane Street, but returned to research, focusing on planet formation in my masters project and research internship.

Outside research, I like films, sports (🥊,⚽) and generally any non-astro/ML topic that grabs my interest — I am often distracted by things like philosophy of mind, complexity science, geopol, and Buddhism!