Jacob Brooke

§ 01 — About

A physicist who ships

Take a real problem, find the quantitative shape of it, build something that solves it.

I'm a final-year BSc Physics student at the University of Bristol, predicted a First. For my dissertation I researched the quantum phenomena of bouncing oil droplets — pilot-wave hydrodynamics — now under review for publication.

My strongest modules were the computational ones (83% in second year, 75% in final year on a solar-power-forecasting project). Outside the lab I co-founded MRCM Analysts, a data and software consultancy now serving 10 active clients, and have worked across finance — Harwood Capital, Zeus Capital and Shoosmiths — before joining Angel Oak Capital this summer.

After graduating in July 2026, I'm open to a range of graduate roles where physics-grade rigour meets commercial judgement.

// At a glance

StatusGraduating Jul 2026

NextAngel Oak Capital

VentureMRCM Analysts

ResearchPilot-wave hydrodynamics

EducationBSc Physics, Bristol

LocationUnited Kingdom

Open toGraduate roles, 2026

§ 02 — Experience

Where I've worked

Six roles across investment, law and applied data — building a quantitative and commercial foundation. Click any role to expand.

Active clients · MRCM

33%

Equity pick return · Zeus

Roles across sectors

50k

Users · PadelStars build

Joining as a summer intern in investment research and credit at a leading US structured-credit specialist. Working across credit analysis, portfolio research and risk in mortgage-backed securities and alternative fixed income. Selected through a competitive process; the role spans both quantitative analysis and qualitative diligence on individual credits.

10 active clients across consumer, fintech and SaaS. End-to-end analytics for PadelStars (50,000 registrations, 50 courts, 12 sites), restructured CrowdProperty's loan tracking (FCA-regulated, ~£1bn), and built NTELX's investor pitch (clients incl. FDA / DARPA).

Buy-rated equity research pitch on Big Technologies plc, including a full valuation and investment case; the stock has since appreciated ~33% (79p → 105p). Cross-departmental exposure across equity research, corporate finance and sales — a view of how a sell-side bank functions end-to-end.

Screened UK-listed small/mid-caps on cash flow, profitability and balance-sheet criteria, then synthesised filings, RNS announcements and broker research into investment cases. Built LBO models analysing MOIC returns, produced investment papers with peer benchmarking, and joined a site visit for end-of-fund-life due diligence.

Supported due diligence and contract review across M&A, venture capital and corporate transactions. Attended client meetings with early-stage startups, developed commercial awareness of deal structuring, and saw how legal advisory wraps around commercial decision-making.

Cross-functional rotation across store operations, shop floor, design, HR and finance at a global luxury brand. Built a working understanding of how the core functions of a major business connect commercially — and how each one contributes to brand and margin.

§ 03 — Research

Walking droplets

Final-year BSc research in pilot-wave hydrodynamics. Paper under review for publication.

Publication under review

Hydrodynamic quantum analogues

Final-year project supervised by Dr. Massimo Antognazzi, investigating silicone-oil droplets that bounce on a vertically vibrated bath and self-propel along their own pilot wave.

These walking droplets (Couder & Fort, 2006) classically reproduce single-slit diffraction, tunnelling and quantised orbits — combining experimental work with Python-based tracking and quantitative analysis.

GitHub ↗ Download paper ↓

// Vibrating bathclick to drop →

Single-slit walking-droplet simulator

Each launch picks a deflection angle sampled from the real sinc² distribution for the cleanest dataset in my paper (slit width d = 12 mm, Faraday wavelength λ_F = 5.19 mm). Spam the launcher or hit Auto · 100 — the histogram converges to the theoretical envelope drawn in white.

Apparatus · bird's-eye

N = 0

Deflection histogram

§ 04 — Projects

Things I've built

Self-directed and assessed work in machine learning, reinforcement learning and fintech.

Machine Learningi

Solar Power Forecasting

Multi-site PV forecasting system on a Hong Kong dataset with integrated meteorology. Compared Linear / Ridge / Lasso / Tree / MLP models with feature engineering and lag variables.

Pythonscikit-learnRMSE/MAE

Fullstack · In Progressii

Lab Notebook

A cumulative, replayable digital lab notebook for Bristol physics undergraduates. Words, data and photos in the order they happened — exportable as a polished PDF, shareable as a read-only link. AI cleans up spelling and units; never authors.

Next.jsReactSupabase

GitHub ↗

Reinforcement Learningiii

AI Trading System

Prototype RL trader on BTC/ETH 1h candles using stable-baselines3 (PPO + LSTM). Exploring signal design, backtesting and risk controls in noisy real-world data.

PPOLSTMSB3

Fintechiv

Budgeting & Banking Tool

Personal budgeting tool integrating TrueLayer for live bank-account connectivity. Auto-categorises expenditure and tracks spending against budgets.

TrueLayerPythonAutomation

§ 06 — Beyond work

The other stuff

Sport, music, theatre — and the places I've spent time.

Tennis and padel are my main sports. I was Social Secretary for the University of Bristol Tennis Club — the largest sports club on campus — hosting events for 100+ people. I'm in the Bristol Padel League, placing top 3 with my partner, and play squash and ski / snowboard when I can.

I play acoustic and electric guitar (Grade 5, fingerpicking, partial to blues), played lead in the school production of Shakespeare in Love, and was a Platoon Leader in the CCF.

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