Hi! I’m Luke, a software developer and Physics graduate from the West Midlands, UK. I’ve created this small personal website to host some blog posts about projects, programming, and other things that interest me!
I plan to start with a couple of posts about some past projects of mine (particularly some Physics ones from my time at university) and then will see where this goes.
I graduated from the University of Warwick with a MPhys degree in Physics in 2024. My main interests were (and still are!) in computational physics, quantum physics, and both theoretical and experimental particle physics – although I also really enjoyed the modules I took on geophysics, atmospheric physics, and electrodynamics. In my final year, I did a disseration with Warwick’s computational surface science group, where I did research on the effectivness of machine-learned interatomic potentials in simulations of desorption reactions with Hydrogen on Copper surfaces.
I also spent some time over the summer of 2023 doing a project with the Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling, where I implemented an algorithm for efficiently calculating the values of spherical harmonics in Fortran 95, and contributed it to their QUIP package.
After graduating, I started a career as a software developer, where I currently work as a full-stack .NET developer at a Birmingham-based tech company. I’m looking to further improve my skills as a web developer, so you may see some posts about programming projects here in the future!
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-raybould
GitHub : https://github.com/lraybould