About
I’m a molecular/chemical physicist at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan in the Quantum Photo-Science Laboratory researching interactions between molecules and confined light at femtosecond and picosecond time scales with ultrafast lasers.
I am also interested in how governments allocate resources to scientific output. Funding basic research has a track record of improving quality of life and driving economic growth, yet governments around the world have been cutting science budgets. For a myriad of reasons, funding basic science has to increase.
This website is my home on the internet, because websites are back! (now that the internet as we know it is broken and social media is... not really what we wanted it to be, is it?)
Site and tools
RSS feed for posts.All of the CSS and HTML—layout, fonts, colors—on this site are my own design. Simple, fast, and a careful selection of shades of blue.
Great software is great. Here are some of my favorites:- Affinity Designer for most of my graphics needs
- Makie for making plots in Julia
- Things for task management
- Keynote for presentations
- Ulysses for drafting in Markdown
- Pages for writing (super underrated)
- Texifier for writing LaTeX on macOS, iPadOS, and iOS
- Zotero by far the best reference management software out there