Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology People
Academic staff
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Richard Battye | Theoretical cosmology, VSA, Planck, HI/SZ surveys |
| Dr Ian Browne | AGN, Blazars, Lenses, OCRA-p, FARADAY |
| Prof. R. D. Davies (Emeritus) | VSA, HI, radio surveys, Planck and foregrounds |
| Dr Richard Davis | Planck, VSA, radio stars |
| Prof. Phil Diamond (now at CASS) | Starbursts and megamasers. |
| Dr Clive Dickinson | CMB, foregrounds, radio interferometry, component separation, radio and H-alpha surveys, ISM/Galaxy, Planck, QUIET, C-BASS, QUIJOTE, OCRA |
| Prof. Simon Garrington | e-MERLIN |
| Dr Neal Jackson | Gravitational lensing |
| Dr Scott Kay | Theoretical astrophysics, cosmology |
| Dr J.P. Leahy | Polarisation, Planck, VSA, radio jets from AGN |
| Dr Bruno Maffei | |
| Prof. Shude Mao | Gravitational (micro)lensing, galactic dynamics, galaxy formation |
| Prof. Alan Pedlar (Emeritus) | Galaxies |
| Prof. Lucio Piccirillo | |
| Dr Giampaolo Pisano | |
| Prof. Ralph Spencer | AGNs, CSS, ULXs, SNRs |
| Dr Althea Wilkinson | Planck, polarisation foregrounds, VSA |
| Prof. P.N. Wilkinson | OCRA-p, FARADAY |
| Prof. Albert Zijlstra | Dust, interacting galaxies |
Research Staff
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr George Bendo | Dust and star formation in nearby galaxies with ALMA, Herschel and Spitzer |
| Dr Rob Beswick | Galaxies and star formation, e-MERLIN |
| Dr Anna Bonaldi | Component separation for Planck |
| Dr Melanie Gendre | Galaxies, e-MERLIN |
| Dr Simon J. Melhuish | |
| Dr Tom Muxlow | MERLIN operations |
| Dr Michael Peel | CMB foregrounds for Planck; Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect; radio point sources; OCRA-FARADAY |
| Dr Alkistis Pourtsidou | Cosmic strings |
| Dr Bob Watson | CMB, foregrounds, instrumentation |
Students
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Gupta | Radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (blazars); SENSE |
| Melis Irfan | C-BASS |
| Mark McCulloch | QUIET instrumentation |
| Richard Newton | Numerical simulations of structure formation |
| Jonathan Pearson | Theoretical cosmology - kinky vortons |
| Simon Pike | Numerical simulations of structure formation |
| Matias Vidal Navarro | QUIET data analysis |
| Nick Wrigley | Deep field radio observations (MSc) |
Visitors
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Dick Long | Modelling external galaxies and the Milky Way using the made-to-measure method |
| Dr Magda Todorović | VSA, C-BASS, CMB foregrounds and radio surveys |
Previous Staff
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Vladislav Stolyarov | Research associate at CPAC. |
| Dr Janine van Eymeren | Gas kinematics in star-forming galaxies |
| Dr Tess Jaffe | Planck, galactic foregrounds |
| Dr Stuart Lowe | Planck, OCRA, public outreach |
Past Students
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Zamri Zainal Abidin | Worked on polarization simulations for Planck LFI as part of his PhD (2005). |
| Marta Alves | Radio Recombination Line surveys of the Galaxy |
| Francisco Blanco | Non-Gaussianity for the VSA. |
| Sarah Bryan | |
| Kieran Cleary | Completed his PhD thesis (2003) on radio source foregrounds for the VSA. Now at JPL. |
| Carlos Gutierrez de la Cruz | |
| Alan Duffy | Large scale structure formation |
| Danielle Fenech | Still affiliated, employed by UCL |
| Yaser Hafez | Studied weather and calibration effects on the VSA for his PhD. |
| Roger Hoyland | |
| Adam Moss | Worked on designing and constraining models of inflation and quintessence for his PhD. |
| Junghwan Oh | |
| Steven Pediani | Dark energy and large scale structure. |
| Michael Preece | Polarizations of the CMB |
| Dimitrios Stamadianos | CBI observations of the Galaxy |
| Richard Taylor | Numerical simulations of structure formation |
| Chris Tibbs | CMB foregrounds and anomalous dust. |
| Dandan Xu | Gravitational lensing and galaxy evolution |
| Helen Yates | Tested Planck radiometers for her MSc (2005) |
