I am a joint-PhD student funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance, affiliated with the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University in Australia and with the Elementary Particle Physics (EPP) group within the department of Physics at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

My PhD research focuses on the question of how particles with many heavy quarks form. This matters because different models give strikingly different predictions about how these particles are created, reflecting a lack of knowledge of about the underlying physical mechanism. My research test these production models and may also provide information about how the interactions which create these particles are distributed in space and time.

I also work with an Australian-based non-for-profit organisation QueersInScience (QIS), to funding to study the history of queer people's contributions to Science Technology Engineering Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) from the Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia), which is administered by the Australian Academy of Science. I am also a research associate on this project, which is being conducted with the assistance of the Australian Queer Archive (AQuA).

I completed my BA in 2020 and my BSc (Honours) in 2021 at Monash University.  I specialised in Ancient Near Eastern cultures, supernatural, queer and women's literature in my BA and in my BSc I specialised in light hadron production at the LHCb experiment.

Note: some older publications use my former name Michael Walton. 

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