Biography

Hello friend,

Welcome to my personal website and blog! Here you’ll find posts aboout neuroscience, endocrinology, and data-drive blogs on whatever topic currently has my interest. If you ended up here to scope me out for a job, then you’re even more welcome. I am recently minted Ph.D. and I am looking to work. My interests are wide and motivation is high.

A little about myself:

I was born and raised in Kildare (Cill Dara), Ireland (Éire) to Irish speaking parents. My parents gifted my the privilege of being a proud Irish speaker. In my early 20’s, I ended up in Montréal as a exchange student and fell in love with city. After finishing my undergraduate degree in psychology at Maynooth University (a wonderful psychology department btw), I decided to pack my bags and cross the waters back to Montréal to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology at Concordia University. This led me deep into the beautiful worlds of sex research, neuroscience, and endocrinology.

I spent several years watching rats have sex…Well, there was a bit more to it than that. I ended up studying the role of the hormone oxytocin (which is also a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, and neurohormone if you want to be pedantic) in sexual behaviours and reproduction.

During this time, I learned to program and fell in love with all things data.

Here I am now, (primarily) self-trained in R and Python. I spend a lot of my time analysing data with R, and on app and API development with Flask (Python).