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I completed my PhD at University College Dublin in 2022 with my Thesis “Numerical approaches to first- and second-order self-force calculations” under the supervision of Dr. Niels Warburton. I was funded by the Royal Society. My research focuses on modelling gravitational self-force from systems from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) using black hole perturbation theory. Here the smaller body is treated as a perturbation of an exact black hole solution and this leads to a solution in terms of a formal power series in the mass ratio. For the future space-based gravitational wave detector, LISA, it is necessary to consider up to second-order in the mass ratio. In particular, I am interested in how to compute these second-order waveforms for systems where the smaller body is in an eccentric orbit around the primary black hole. MPhys Physics with Theoretical Physics graduate from the University of Manchester. https://www.benjaminleather.com/research daily 0.75 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Research https://www.benjaminleather.com/publications daily 0.75 2022-06-09 https://www.benjaminleather.com/outreach daily 0.75 2021-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60eadc0a244ddf3078c0225d/1631227262657-6FIY7J5VRIK66NKF14KJ/Talk+Photo+-+Main Outreach - Astronomy on Tap - #ScienceWeek For Science Week in 2019 I travelled to the Birr Castle Observatory in County Offaly, Ireland. In the morning we met with 60 first year students from Coláiste Iósaef in County Limerick at the local theatre where other PhD students from the UCD Relativity group gave short talks before doing some black hole themed activities. Later in the evening we attended the Astronomy on Tap event at the Chestnut Pub organised by I-LOFAR and the Birr Castle Observatory where I gave a talk on gravitational waves - Ripples in Space and Time. I would fully support every public talk to be accompanied by a lovely pint of Guinness. In case you didn't manage to make it down to Co. Offaly, the event was also live streamed by the YouTube channel, Space Videos, and you can watch it here. The video features my talk and the proceeding talk on Black Hole Astronomy by my PhD supervisor, Dr. Niels Warburton. Special thanks to Aine Flood, I-LOFAR and the Birr Castle Observatory for organising this and inviting me to speak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60eadc0a244ddf3078c0225d/1631229678643-DKJZ8ECS2LWZUF8VOQDP/Talk+Photo+-+2 Outreach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60eadc0a244ddf3078c0225d/1631229801887-AAD3L785ZAB1O0NJXXQ5/Talk+Photo+-+3 Outreach