Geographer. Problem-solver. Tool-builder.

Geography, Aberystwyth University

I took an odd route into Geography. My first year at Aberystwyth was Software Engineering, which I finished with a 1:1, and then I switched. I'm happiest outdoors, and the thought of a career spent entirely at a desk didn't sit right. Geography, and remote sensing in particular, let me keep the technical skills I'd built and point them at places I actually care about.

What I like about this work is that it is genuinely two things at once. There's the puzzle of wrangling terrain, spatial data and satellite imagery, and then there's an output that means something real: where water goes in a catchment, where flood risk sits, how fast a coastline is going, which habitats are under pressure. My coding background mostly shows up in how I work. I think in systems and try to make things reproducible, which adds to the geography rather than replacing it.

Away from the screen I hike and wild-camp a lot, so I've spent real time in the kind of remote places I end up studying. I photograph wildlife and landscapes, log species on iNaturalist, run and lift most days, play guitar and piano, read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, build computers, and play cricket and football.