About Me
Employement
2024 - 2027
Research Fellow in the Sun, Stars and Exoplanets group, University of Birmingham, UK
Aim: using the four decades of Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) data to investigate stellar variability phenomena across a magnetic cycle on timescales from minutes to months
Education
2020 - 2024
PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter, UK
Supervisors: Dr. Raphaelle Haywood, Dr. Tim Naylor
Title: Breaking the stellar activity barrier to determining robust masses of small exoplanets
2016 - 2020
MPhys in Physics and Astronomy at Durham University, UK
Master Project Advisor: Prof. Cedric Lacey
Title: Study of the galaxy merger rate in the EAGLE simulation
Research Interests
I focus on understanding the stellar activity signal in radial velocity surveys for the detection of exoplanets.
I am involved in "Sun as an exoplanet-hosting distant star" studies.
I currently am developing a new calibration pipeline for the BiSON solar data in order to extent its stability beyond 1 day.
We are doing so in order to study longer term stellar variability in one of the longest solar RV dataset.
Recently I also assessed the effectiuveness of the mean longitudian magnetic field, measured from SDO/HMI data, as a stellar activity tracer.
I am a planet hunter.
I have developed a python3 pipeline called MAGPy, a Gaussian process regression tool with MCMC paramter search algorithm.
I use this new pipeline in the detection and characterisations of two systems with the HARPS-N Science Team.
I am a member of the High Accuracy Rocky Planet Search for the Northern Hemisphere, Guaranteed Time
Observation Consortium (HARPS-N GT) Science Team and Solar Team, as well as a collaborator for the Terra Hunting Experiment
Consortium in the Science Team, the Solar Team and the Polarimetry Team.
I am passionate about scientific dissemination and am therefore very active in public outreach. I especially love working with
younger students and children, from visiting schools, exchanging letters to direct pastoral mentoring in highschool.
Publications:
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