Adam Hirst Email & Phone Number

During my time abroad on my PhD, I focused on language-learning and cultural exchange at least as much as I did on my research. After coming home, I eventually admitted to myself that this was my true calling. I started self-learning Japanese, did some soul-seeking, and came out of the pandemic as a successful JET Programme applicant.In a past life, I was a Theoretical Physics MPhys graduate from Durham University, having specialised in mathematically- and computationally-inclined topics. I had a keen interest in scientific computing, and have experience writing (primarily optics and computational condensed matter) numerical codes in Object-Oriented Modern Fortran.I spent 5 years working on a PhD in the field of computational non-imaging optics, as part of the ADOPSYS Marie-Curie programme, having spent time both at OSRAM in Munich (formerly Augsburg) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. I exited the programme without graduation.