{"id":36,"date":"2021-09-09T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/?p=36"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:13:22","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/2021\/09\/09\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello! My name is Holly Middleton-Spencer and I am a PhD student at Newcastle University. My PhD work focusses on Quantum Fluids and specifically the turbulence within. Although focusing on Quantum Turbulence, I have a deep interest of anything cold-atomy with a particular love of the interplay of experiments and theory. The last few months, I have focussed on the modelling of oscillatory driving of condensates, following excellent experimental work in the first generations of Quantum Turbulence . I have access to data which experimentalists do not &#8211; I can use the whole wavefunction of the system to help pin down any power laws and am currently analysing the effect of vortices within the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Non-Research things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still on my mission to discover a sensible work life balance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my spare time I am a keen musician. I have studied the flute since the age of 6 and also sing. Although the flute is my primary instrument, I also study the oboe and bassoon. My &#8220;musical credits&#8221; include many concert halls in The Cotswolds and have had the amazing opportunity of performing at the Last Night of Youth Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. I am currently (2021) preparing to perform in Verdi&#8217;s Requiem where I will sing first soprano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I procrastinate from Quantum Fluids by studying languages. I have JLPT3 in Japanese and have some knowledge of Mandarin and German. I can read Egyptian Hieroglyphs with a basic knowledge of Hieratic Egyptian and Coptic and currently battle the mastery of Akkadian. I have a strong love of ancient mathematics and hope to one day truly contribute to the small but fascinating field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some peculiar reason I have a weird ability of talking my way into political events. I have worked in the UK Parliament, given a speech at the European Parliament and once got into an argument with a &#8220;prominent&#8221; politician on live TV. I then concluded that I prefer the company of FORTRAN codes to that of career politicians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Hello! My name is Holly Middleton-Spencer and I am a PhD student at Newcastle University. My PhD work focusses on Quantum Fluids and specifically the turbulence within. Although focusing on Quantum Turbulence, I have a deep interest of anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/2021\/09\/09\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/hajmiddletonspencer2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}