About Andy
Hi, I’m Andy Buckley; welcome to my haphazard website.
When not maintaining this website I’m a particle physicist, currently based in Durham (the UK one). I also like to play drums, fiddle with maths and programming, climb and bike up/down mountains and generally behave like a small, excitable child.
I grew up in Belfast, and moved to Cambridge (again, the UK one) in 1997 to do a degree in physics at the university. In the end I stayed there for nearly 8 years, picked up 3 degrees (all in physics, I’m afraid) and a wonderful girlfriend, Jo. We then moved to Durham, where I work in the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology and Jo is studying for a PhD in the music department. These days I work on computer simulations of high-energy particle interactions, specifically on automated tuning and validation of model parameters.
Aside from work, I’ve been interested in computing, liberal politics ( NO2ID, CAAT, Conscience and the like), design and architecture, climbing, student radio and anything (predominantly pop-)musical, to name but a few interests.
In the event that you might be interested in my taste in music and films, I did have some lists of favourite songs, albums, films, etc. on here, but they’ve stopped working with a site upgrade. My memory is awful, so I like lists - they’ll be back sometime. A cross-section of what I’ve been listening to on my computer recently is available in the form of my Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile. Some last.fm charts are visible to the right - they only get updated with what I listen to on my laptop, though, and since I started ripping my CD collection to FLAC in alphabetical order, I probably seem to be biased towards listening to artists whose names are in the earlier part of the alphabet. Lies and statistics, eh?
