James graduated with his undergraduate masters degree in 2017. With this course being taught jointly between the School of Physics and the School of Mathematics he had the opportunity to study a wide range of subjects in the world of physics, while also developing his understanding of the underlying mechanics and the pure mathematics that govern them. In his masters project he compared two competing models that claim to explain the movement of holes and electron throughout the characteristic copper oxide plane of cuprate materials, a mechanism that is the crux to the onset of superconductivity in these particular ceramics.