His research applies fluid-mechanical modelling to understand geophysical flows, with a particular interest in the physics of sea ice and it's interaction with the ocean. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2009, and was a Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in the summer of 2007. Between 2008-2012 he worked at Yale University as a Bateman Interdepartmental Postdoctoral Scholar in the Departments of Geology & Geophysics and Mathematics, and as a Gibbs Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics, carrying out research into the fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of sea ice growth. In 2012 he joined the sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is developing a research group on ice and fluid dynamics.