Election statement I first joined the LSC in 2014 when I started my PhD at the University of Birmingham, and I’m now in my second year as a postdoc at the University of Florida. I work in instrument science, primarily specialised in numerical modelling of the detectors – both towards current commissioning questions and future detector designs – and I’m also helping develop new hardware for A+. I’ve developed and run several workshops on interferometer modelling across the collaboration, including in Florida, India, and at the last LAAC tutorial session. I also greatly enjoy outreach, including developing resources from quick demos to our museum exhibit in Birmingham, and leading activities for school visits and fairs. One of the biggest things I’ve appreciated since joining the collaboration is that it really is a big, international community working towards a common goal. This sense of community is something that I think is quite special and has enabled us to get as far as we have, so I want to strengthen it. As your Postdoc Rep I would help continue and expand the LAAC’s existing activities (events at LVK meetings, online resources, mentoring), as well as considering ways to better understand and address the gaps where the needs of our junior members are not being heard or met. The questions we encounter and experiences we have change as we move from undergraduate through to postdoc. I’d like to review the current LAAC activities with this in mind, expand the resources available to postdocs, and create spaces (online and in person) specifically for people at similar stages to share experiences and advice, or ask those ‘is this normal’ questions to someone a couple of years ahead. I’m also keen to help newer collaboration members understand the broader context of their research, and with practical things like hunting down those key documents in the dcc, or identifying the author of a key paper at a conference. Thank you for nominating me! It would be a privilege to do my bit for our community.