ESA Science Operations Scientist
Ariel Science
Operations and Archive Scientist
The Ariel mission will study chemical composition for 1000 exoplanet atmospheres via the transit method, with launch aimed for 2029. | |
Extragalactic Astronomer - Multi-wavelegnth analysis of formation and evolution of galaxies in dense cluster environments - Characterisation of high-redshift galaxies via gravitational lensing, particularly in the far-infrared and submillimeter lensing | |
Formerly JWST NIRSpec Instrument
Scientist Pre- and post-launch commissioning of the European-contributed spectrographic workhouse of JWST, in particular the amazing Mircoshutter Array which allows 100s of targets to be observed simultaneously. |
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Recent Publications
A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang Looser et al. 2024, Nature, 629, 53 | NASA ADS | |
Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep
Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Eisenstein et al. 2023, submitted, arXiv:2306.02465 | NASA ADS | |
In-flight performance of the NIRSpec micro shutter array" Rawle et al. 2022, Proc SPIE, Vol 12180, id. 121803R 15 pp. | NASA ADS |
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Mini Bio
2022- | ESA Ariel Science Operations and Archive Scientistat ESAC | |
2015-2023 | ESA JWST NIRSpec Instrument Scientist at STScI | |
2012-2015 | ESA Research Fellow at ESAC | |
2009-2012 | Postdoctoral research associate with Eiichi Egami at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona | |
2006-2009 | STFC PhD student at Durham University, supervised by John Lucey and Russell J. Smith |
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Contact
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