I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow working in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Group at the SUPA School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Glasgow. A brief c.v. is at the bottom of this page and my university profile is here. My research is focused on the physical processes behind the emission we observe in solar flares (or explosive bursts) in the Sun's atmosphere. I study this primarily through multi-wavelength observations (especially X-rays from RHESSI) combined with theory and numerical simulations. I am particularly interested in small active region flares (microflares and smaller) and also quiet sun emission. I am part of the team using NuSTAR to probe the X-ray emission from these weak events (press releases: first observations, full-sun mosaic). My overview of these solar observations is available on GitHub Pages.