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Name | Institution | Science Collaborations of Interest | End of Term | |
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| 1 | James Aird | Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | Co-evolution of AGN and galaxies. Synergy with multiwavelength surveys. | 31/12/2023 |
| 2 | David Alonso | University of Oxford, Department of Physics | Cosmology, Dark Energy, large-scale structure, weak lensing, data analysis, high-performance computing | 31/12/2021 |
| 3 | Adam Amara | Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth | My interest is in large scale. In particular weak lensing and galaxy clustering. I also work actively on forward modelling and likelihood free analysis methods. | 31/12/2022 |
| 4 | David Bacon | Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth | Constraints on gravitational theories using probes of large-scale structure: weak lensing, clustering. Cross-correlations with radio surveys for mutual help with redshifts and constraints. | 31/12/2022 |
| 5 | Tessa Baker | Queen Mary University of London | Tests of gravity and dark energy with large-scale structure, simulations for dark energy models, multi-messenger astronomy i.e. LSST electromagnetic counterparts for gravitational wave sources. | 31/12/2022 |
| 6 | Ivan Baldry | Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University | Galaxy demographics. Cosmic star-formation rate. Preserving and detecting low-surface-brightness light in coadds. Photometric redshifts. Cadence of repeat imaging for supernovae identification. | 31/12/2023 |
| 7 | Manda Banerji | University of Southampton | Galaxy formation and evolution, AGN, survey science | 31/12/2023 |
| 8 | Vasily Belokurov | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | My interests and expertise are in the studies of the Galactic structure (e.g. Milky Way stellar halo) and dynamics, analysis of large datasets, transients. | 31/12/2023 |
| 9 | Malcolm Bremer | School of Physics, University of Bristol | (1) To identify and study optically-luminous galaxies within high redshift proto-clusters, and (2) to explore and derive joint constraints from morphology and SED on galaxy star formation histories. | 31/12/2023 |
| 10 | Philip Bull | School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London | Dark energy science; parameter inference; joint cosmological analyses/cross-correlations; tests of gravity and fundamental physics | 31/12/2023 |
| 11 | Erminia Calabrese | Cardiff University | My main interest lies in combining LSST cosmological probes with future Cosmic Microwave Background datasets. | 31/12/2022 |
| 12 | Apostolos Christou | Armagh Observatory and Planetarium | Solar system small bodies: the asteroid Main Belt, Martian & Terrestial Trojans, their origin and existence, characterising the present population. | 31/12/2023 |
| 13 | Thomas Collett | ICG Portsmouth | LSST strong lensing, observational cosmology. | 31/12/2023 |
| 14 | Chris Collins | Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University | The origin and properties of the Intra Cluster Light and its role in building the stellar mass at the centres of rich clusters: techniques for optimal ICL recovery from LSST data. | 31/12/2022 |
| 15 | Michelle Collins | University of Surrey | Resolved stellar populations, galaxy evolution, dark matter, ultra diffuse galaxies, stellar streams | 31/12/2022 |
| 16 | Christopher Conselice | U. of Manchester | I am examining the structures of galaxies, including simulations using LSST/Rubin properties to see how well galaxy structure can be measured, including LSB features. | 31/12/2023 |
| 17 | Roger Davies | Astrophysics, Physics Dept, University of Oxford | Interests: galaxy evolution and cosmology. I wish to develop and test methods chart the merger history of galaxies from the low surface brightness light that surrounds them. | 31/12/2022 |
| 18 | Alis Deason | Durham University, Institute for Computational Cosmology | My research uses the surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way to unravel the Galaxy's assembly history, measure the dark matter profile of the halo, and test cosmological theories. | 31/12/2021 |
| 19 | Victor Debattista | University of Central Lancashire, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute | The bulge and disc of the Milky Way | 31/12/2023 |
| 20 | Simon Dye | University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy | Development of efficient automated techniques for modelling new LSST strong gravitational galaxy lens samples, including deep learning methods. Scientific analysis of these lens samples. | 31/12/2022 |
| 21 | Alastair Edge | Durham University | My principle scientific interest is clusters of galaxies with connection to NIR surveys and multiwavelength studies. | 31/12/2021 |
| 22 | Wyn Evans | Cambridge University | Galactic astronomy and dynamics - particularly the interplay between Gaia & LSST for studying faint substructure and variable stars in the Local Group. | 31/12/2021 |
| 23 | Annette Ferguson | Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | Resolved stellar populations in the local universe (Milky Way and galaxies out to ~5 Mpc distance). Low surface brightness structures around the galaxy population at large. | 31/12/2021 |
| 24 | Pedro Ferreira | University of Oxford | Cosmology: precision constraints of Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Gravity; statistical methods for clustering and lenseing (focusing on angular power spectra). | 31/12/2023 |
| 25 | Alan Fitzsimmons | Queen's University Belfast | Scientific Interests: Asteroids undergoing activity due to collisions, spinup or sublimation; Cometary activity and outbursts; Detection and observation of Interstellar Objects. | 31/12/2023 |
| 26 | Poshak Gandhi | School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton | Transients and long-term variables; Multiwavelength surveys from X-rays to optical and infrared; Evolution of black holes and galaxies. | 31/12/2021 |
| 27 | Oscar Gonzalez | UK Astronomy Technology Centre | Wide-field stellar populations (age, metallicity) and structure of the MW Bulge | 31/12/2023 |
| 28 | Or Graur | University of Portsmouth / Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation | I am interested in supernova rates and conducting follow-up observations of LSST candidates using GOTO and the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (imaging), along with DESI and 4MOST (spectroscopy). | 31/12/2023 |
| 29 | Alan Heavens | Imperial College/Physics | Scientific: cosmological parameters, dark energy, gravity. Technical: principled statistical analysis of cosmological data, especially cosmic shear. | 31/12/2022 |
| 30 | Martin Hendry | University of Glasgow School of Physics and Astronomy | I am interested in the use of LSST galaxy survey data to contribute to gravitational-wave cosmology using "dark sirens" - i.e. compact binary coalescences without an explicit EM counterpart. | 31/12/2022 |
| 31 | Catherine Heymans | Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | Observational Cosmology: weak gravitational lensing and large-scale structure. | 31/12/2021 |
| 32 | Sebastian Hoenig | University of Southampton | Active Galactic Nuclei, transients, variability, time-dependent radiative transfer, time-domain surveys, multi-wavelength SEDs and catalogues, radiation-hydrodynamics | 31/12/2021 |
| 33 | Isobel Hook | Lancaster University Physics Department | I am interested in supernovae and their use for cosmology. I am a member of the DESC supernova WG. I am also interested in the synergy between LSST and EUCLID, 4MOST and E-ELT. | 31/12/2022 |
| 34 | Cosimo Inserra | School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University | My current scientific research interest focus on observational studies of supernovae explosions. From the technical point of view, I am interested in machine learning classifier of optical transients. | 31/12/2021 |
| 35 | Matt Jarvis | Oxford Physics | photo-zs for AGN, Galaxies and DE SCs. Combining with multi-wavelength data (principally NIR and radio). I'm a member of all of these SCs. | 31/12/2021 |
| 36 | Benjamin Joachimi | UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Cosmology, primarily with large-scale structure probes; data analysis techniques and statistical inference | 31/12/2022 |
| 37 | Geraint Jones | UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Search for target comets for ESA Comet Interceptor mission. Cometary nuclei, dust and ion tails, including their interactions with the solar wind. Dust trails occupying comets’ orbits. | 31/12/2023 |
| 38 | Sugata Kaviraj | University of Hertfordshire | Observational studies of galaxy evolution using wide-area surveys, cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations, machine-learning techniques for LSST | 31/12/2022 |
| 39 | Thomas Kitching | UCL MSSL | I am interested in weak lensing, cosmic shear, convergence mapping, systems engineering, Bayesian and machine learning methodology. | 31/12/2021 |
| 40 | Kazuya Koyama | University of Portsmouth | I am interested in testing beyond LCDM models in the light of recent findings of “tensions” in LCDM such as the Hubble constant measurement and the amplitude of weak lensing measurements. | 31/12/2023 |
| 41 | Ofer Lahav | University College London |
| 31/12/2022 |
| 42 | Danielle Leonard | Newcastle University, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics | Weak lensing and galaxy clustering to test cosmology, with a particular interest in beyond-LCDM models and astrophysical systematic effects, and applying novel statistical methods for this purpose. | 31/12/2022 |
| 43 | Chris Lintott | Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford | I'm heavily involved in the LSST project's plans for citizen science across a variety of science cases. My own interest is mainly galaxy morphology, particularly low-surface brightness features. | 31/12/2022 |
| 44 | Jon Loveday | University of Sussex, Physics & Astronomy | Member of DESC and Galaxies collaborations. Interested in LSS constraints on cosmological models; abundance of dwarf/LSB galaxies. Reliable automated photometry of resolved galaxy images. | 31/12/2023 |
| 45 | Philip Lucas | University of Hertfordshire | Star formation, unusual variable stars, brown dwarfs, exoplanets. Milky Way & Local Volume coll. (member). Transients & Variable Stars coll. Optical-IR science: LSST+VVV/VVVX. Astrometry. | 31/12/2022 |
| 46 | Kate Maguire | School of Maths and Physics, Queen's University Belfast | I am a member of the Dark Energy Science collaboration and the Transient and Variable stars | 31/12/2021 |
| 47 | Kaisey Mandel | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | supernova cosmology, transients, photometric classification of transient light curves, astrostatistics, astroinformatics, and machine learning in astronomy, Bayesian modeling, computation/inference. | 31/12/2022 |
| 48 | Bob Mann | Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | Data management. Galaxy evolution. Cosmology. Transient astronomy. | 31/12/2022 |
| 49 | Ben Maughan | University of Bristol, School of Physics | I am interested in using LSST to detect and characterise clusters of galaxies in order to use them as cosmological probes, and study cluster astrophysics and galaxy evolution. | 31/12/2023 |
| 50 | Justyn Maund | University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Machine learning for classification and the identification of young transients for the purpose of polarimetric followup. | 31/12/2023 |
| 51 | Jason McEwen | UCL MSSL | I am interested in LSST for weak gravitational lensing studies of dark energy and dark matter and for transient studies. | 31/12/2022 |
| 52 | Sean McGee | University of Birmingham | I have wide interests in LSST science, focused on galaxy evolution and low-surface brightness science, but also tidal disruption events, strong lensing and overlap with gravitational wave sources. | 31/12/2022 |
| 53 | Richard McMahon | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization; discovery and characterisation of highest redshift quasars; formation and evolution of supermassive black holes and quasars; Gravitationally lensed quasars. | 31/12/2021 |
| 54 | Daniel Mortlock | Physics and Mathematics, Imperial College London | My main LSST scientific interest is the identification of high-redshift (z ~ 7) quasars to probe reionization and early black hole growth. I am also interested in rare object searches. | 31/12/2021 |
| 55 | James Mullaney | The University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy | My core scientific interests relate to active galactic nuclei and their relation to their host galaxies. I predominantly work with survey data, whether wide area, or deep "pencil-beam" surveys. | 31/12/2022 |
| 56 | Tim Naylor | University of Exeter | My primary LSST interest is star formation, but I also have an interest in statistical methods. I am already a member of the SMWLV and Transient/Variable stars collaborations. | 31/12/2021 |
| 57 | Matt Nicholl | University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy | Classifying transients to find unusual/energetic sources for detailed follow-up. Data filtering / machine learning techniques on the alerts stream. ToO opportunities for GW counterpart searches. | 31/12/2023 |
| 58 | Hiranya Peiris | Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL | cosmological constraints from combined-probes analyses; LSST as a discovery machine for transients; gravitational wave multi-messenger astronomy; data analysis methodology. | 31/12/2021 |
| 59 | Daniel Perley | Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University | I am interested primarily in energetic transients (supernovae and gamma-ray bursts) as probes of stellar and cosmic evolution. | 31/12/2023 |
| 60 | Kevin Pimbblet | University of Hull, Department of Physics, E.A.Milne Centre for Astrophysics | We will use LSST data to test our noise reduction algorithm using autoencoders and classify the outputs. This will tie-in to our planned work to identify cosmic chronometers for future follow up. | 31/12/2021 |
| 61 | Kathy Romer | University of Sussex | Clusters of galaxies as cosmological and astrophysical probes. X-ray astronomy. | 31/12/2022 |
| 62 | Jason Sanders | University College London, Department of Physics & Astronomy | Milky Way disc, bulge and halo kinematics/dynamics, variable stars (e.g. RR Lyrae) as tracers of MW components and substructure, stellar streams and dwarf galaxies, substructure around other galaxies | 31/12/2021 |
| 63 | Meg Schwamb | Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast | Evolution and origin of the Solar System focusing on the small body populations; selection and characterization of the ESA Comet Interceptor Mission encounter target, and the search for Planet 9 | 31/12/2022 |
| 64 | Vicky Scowcroft | University of Bath | Studying of variable star populations of Local Group galaxies for a) local calibration of the extragalactic distance scale, and b) high precision studies of the 3D structure of resolved galaxies. | 31/12/2022 |
| 65 | Stephen Serjeant | The Open University / School of Physical Sciences |
| 31/12/2023 |
| 66 | Brooke Simmons | Lancaster University, Physics | I am interested in galaxy secular processes, minor/micro mergers, and black hole galaxy coevolution. I also work on developing software for inference and modelling in galaxy populations. | 31/12/2022 |
| 67 | Stephen Smartt | Queen's University Belfast | Software development for broker, filtering and classifying transients. Massive databases, cross-matching with multi-wavelength sources, multi-messenger astrononmy | 31/12/2022 |
| 68 | Graham Smith | School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham | Strong lensing, transients, gravitational wave follow-up, target of opportunity observations, galaxy clusters. | 31/12/2023 |
| 69 | Robert Smith | University of Sussex | Mapping the cosmological large scale structure. Understanding Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses, Early Universe Physics. | 31/12/2023 |
| 70 | Danny Steeghs | Department of Physics, University of Warwick | My principal interest and expertise lies in time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics, mining large surveys for rare objects, image processing pipelines and related data science. | 31/12/2021 |
| 71 | John Stott | Lancaster University, Physics Dept | My main science interests fall within the Galaxies Collaboration (with links to DE and AGN), with focus on: galaxy clusters and environment; high-z galaxies; low surface brightness galaxies; and AGN. | 31/12/2021 |
| 72 | Mark Sullivan | School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton | supernovae; time domain astronomy; dark energy; optical transients; massive spectroscopic follow-up | 31/12/2022 |
| 73 | Nial Tanvir | University of Leicester | My primary interest is in transient science, especially GRBs, EM counterparts to gravitational wave sources, tidal disruption events, exotic supernovae. Also galaxy evolution and stellar populations. | 31/12/2021 |
| 74 | Jeff Tseng | Oxford Physics | Transients and correlations with neutrino and gravitational wave detectors; dark energy; real-time analysis and monitoring of the camera | 31/12/2023 |
| 75 | Nicholas Walton | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | Planetary Nebulae, and their use as probes of the chemo-dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. The LSST-Gaia boundary for MW structure studies. Tech: Image segmentation and spectral-data federation. | 31/12/2021 |
| 76 | Mike Watson | School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester | Identification of XMM X-ray sources using deep LSST data for AGN studies. New programmes using LSST data will also act as a pathfinder for ESA's Athena mission. | 31/12/2023 |
| 77 | Anne-Marie Weijmans | University of St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy | Scientific interests: galaxy structure and morphology Technical interests: data management, data accessibility and distribution | 31/12/2021 |
| 78 | Vivienne Wild | University of St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy | Using deep multi-wavelength stacked LSST imaging to study the morphologies and stellar populations of quenching and recently quenched galaxies in both the local Universe and at higher redshift. | 31/12/2023 |
| 79 | Stijn Wuyts | University of Bath | Galaxy structure & intrinsic shapes from dwarf galaxies nearby to massive galaxies out to high redshift; stellar populations, dust/ISM and photometric redshifts; galaxy environment; IFU follow-up | 31/12/2022 |
| 80 | Joe Zuntz | Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | Weak Lensing & Galaxy Clustering, Cosmological parameter estimation, DESC pipeline s/w and workflow dev. | 31/12/2023 |
Junior Associates
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