I am an Australian-British university researcher and teacher. I was previously an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow (2013–2016) and Future Fellow (2020–2024).

I am a Deputy Editor of Wave Motion. I am also on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the Royal Society A and SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.

I am the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Australasian wave science community (KOZWaves), which runs a biennial conference series (next one in Sydney, Feb 2026) and a semi-annual online seminar series (KOZWavinar).

I am the AustMS Vice President (Annual Conferences). The next AustMS conference will be held at the University of Western Australia, Perth in Dec 2026.

Some recent research highlights:

Front cover of Reviews of Geophysics (Bennetts et al, 2024).
Front cover of Proceedings A (Hawkins et al, Proc R Soc A, 2024).
Near-perfect capture of incident ocean wave energy by a graded array of five wave energy converters
(Westcott et al, J Fluid Mech, 2024)
Seasonal evolution of the marginal ice zone width using statistical “k-means” clustering vs standard sea ice concentration definition, with observation of wave penetration distances for reference. (Day et al, J Geophys Res: Oceans, 2024).
Flexural response of 15 Antarctic ice shelves to swell with a lear best-fit through the median responses (Liang et al, J Geophys Res: Oceans, 2024)

More research highlights here