About

Toby left the University of Canterbury with the Haydon Prize for top graduating physics student and went to the Australian National University in Canberra to do my honours year. They received first class honours with a grade of 93/100 for the thesis.

They then started a PhD at ANU with a Westpac Future Leader’s Scholarship. During Toby's time as a PhD student they participated in the FameLab science communication competition and made it to the national finals where they placed runner-up. Alongside their PhD studies they also started to invest more effort in my YouTube channel and in 2018 went from 1,000 subscribers to over 100,000, withdrawing from the program to focus on science communication.