About Me

Current work

I am currently a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, researching in cosmological correlators / QFT in curved spacetime / the catchily named “cosmological collider”. If you want to know more about my research, click here.

Nottingham is the place where MRI scanner was invented, and where George Green, of Green’s theorem and Green’s functions fame, was from. It is also the only place in the UK to have a blackboard signed by Einstein.

I used to study at the University of Cambridge, which a lot of my viewers probably know from this video. It was a challenging but rewarding experience, but please don’t just go for the prestige if you can’t handle all the stress and the hectic schedule (one semester is 8 weeks)!

Why YouTube?

I had always been passionate in sharing my love of math with others, as seen on this page. I saw YouTube as just another way of doing so, but the trigger was when my friend and I conducted an academic research project in high school. I was incredibly proud of the project and wanted to share with the world about our results, and YouTube came to my mind.

I did not immediately make videos on this project, because I figured that I needed to grow the channel first, so that when the video would be released, it could get more attention, but from my experience with the YouTube algorithm, it doesn’t seem like this hypothetical will get a lot of attention anyway, so it might be forever in the bin :(

The YouTube journey

Being a “YouTuber” is anything but easy. For me, the channel took 10 months of almost-weekly videos to get 300 subscribers, until the video about COVID pushed me to over 1000. Another 9 months went by and I was at about 3000 subs, and it took this video about Dream cheating in Minecraft speedrun to push me over 10,000, and since then, I reached 100k subs, and received a play button from YouTube, and I do sincerely thank my subscribers for helping me reach this goal.

It is a constant struggle on YouTube to optimise titles and thumbnails, because there are so many videos you can watch on the home page, all of them trying to catch your attention. For me, it is not about the money brought from the views, but the innate desire for recognition when you put in blood, sweat, and tears into a project.

What’s next?

As of writing, I will need to apply for postdoc positions. Given the funding cut by the UK government, I might have to go elsewhere, but it is still my hope to stay in academia, because as you can see from the YouTube channel, I like the teaching aspect.

For the YouTube channel, I will continue for as long as possible. Honestly, the channel is my “escape” from the math I encounter in my degree :)