I am a first-year PostDoc at the York Plasma Institute, University of York. My research is mainly associated with the fundamental principles of particle dynamics in electromagnetic fields. My research areas are as follows: theoretical studies of kink and peeling-ballooning modes using local higher order gyrokinetics, corresponding numerical implementation using local gyrokinetic code gs2, studies of kink and peeling-ballooning modes using the MHD formalism. Part of my work is on the drift kinetic modelling of neoclassical tearing mode magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas.