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  • About me

  • I work as a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, studying Type Ia supernovae, the explosions of white dwarf stars.

    Bio

    I graduated with a MPhys Physics with Astronomy degree from Cardiff University in 2014.

    In 2014/15 I conducted research using data from the AKARI satellite with Dr T Ueta and did some preliminary investigations of V367 Cyg with Dr J Hoffman.

    In 2015/16 I began my full-time research with Dr Hoffman and recently collaborated with Dr Jamie Lomax (a previous DU grad student) on the eclipsing binary system V356 Sgr.

    I worked with Dr Hoffman on simulations of eclipsing binary systems, focusing on the polarization signals, using a Fortran-based simulation code. In 2017/18 we have been receiving data from the Sourthern African Large Telescope (SALT), an 11-m telescope with a spectropolarimetry instrument, the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS). Initial results have been published in the Research Notes of the AAS.

    I completed work with Nicole St-Louis and Anthony Moffat at the University of Montreal on the intrinsic and interstellar polarization of Galcatic WR stars, published in the Astronomical Journal.

    I graduated with my PhD from the Physics and Astronomy department at the University of Denver in 2020.

     

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