Team
I am very fortunate to work with a great bunch of smart minds. See my team below.
Group leader
- Rene Breton (i.e. myself)
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Soheb Mandhai
Postgraduate Students
PhD
Oliver Dodge (2020-) - Fundamental Physics with Spider Pulsars (placeholder) Adipol Phosrisom (2020-) - Fundamental Physics Using Spider Pulsars (placeholder) Tinn Thongmeearkom (MPhil 2021, 2021-) - Search and Characterisation of Binary Pulsar Pengyue Sun (MScR 2023, 2023-) - Transitional Millisecond Pulsars Sergio Belmonte Diaz (2022-) - Detecting Pulsars and Fast Transients Using Machine Learning
Previous team members
- Fujiang Yu (MScR 2023) - The effect of irradiation on spider pulsar binary companion’s atmospheres
- Gareth Hillston (MPhil 2023) - Remote sensing and spread modelling of invasive plants
- John Paice (ERC postdoc 2021-2023)
- Colin Clark (ERC postdoc 2017-2021)
- Mark Kennedy (ERC postdoc 2017-2021)
- Daniel Mata Sanchez (ERC postdoc 2018-2021)
- Guillaume Voisin (ERC postdoc 2017-2020)
- James Stringer (PhD 2021) - Multi-Wavelength Observations Of Spiders
- Joseph Fennell (GCRF Parthenium postdoc 2018-2020)
- Shariar Morshed Rajib (GCRF Research Associate 2018-2020)
- Thomas Scragg (PhD 2020) - Development Of A Digital Pulsar Backend For the African VLBI Network and Pulsar Timing
- Eoin O’Kelly (MScR 2020) - Search For Radio Pulsars With The Lovell Telescope
- Elliott Polzin (PhD 2019, GCRF Parthenium postdoc 2019-2020) - Study of Eclipsing Pulsar Binaries with LOFAR
- Muhammad Usman (CABI Pakistan, 2019)
- Charlie Walker (PhD 2019) - Localising Fast Transients
- Dirk Scholte (MScR 2019) - Investigating Low-Frequency Pulsar Flux Density Variability With LOFAR Simultaneous Beamformed And Imaging Observations
- Susmita Sett (MScR 2019) - Search For Radio Pulsars In Supernova Remnants
- Maria Moutzouri (MScR 2018) - Flux Density And Spectral Variability Of Pulsars