Current Members

Alexander Beckett

PhD student in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Alexander's research interests include understanding circum- and inter-galactic gas and its connection to galaxies.
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Richard Bielby

Research Associate in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Rich's research interests include understanding circum- and inter-galactic gas in the context of the wider distribution of large scale structure, its connection to the galaxy population, and the evolution of these over cosmic timescales.
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Ryan Cooke

Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Ryan's research interests include Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, observational cosmology, the first stars, and fundamental physics.
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Rajeshwari Dutta


Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Rajeshwari's research interests include optical/radio and integral field spectroscopy, galaxy environment, mergers, galaxy-AGN co-evolution. Browse Rajeshwari's publications.

Matteo Fossati

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Matteo's research interests include integral field spectroscopy, galaxy environment, and galaxy evolution.
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Michele Fumagalli

Professor in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and Institute for Computational Cosmology. Michele's research interests include how galaxy evolution is shaped by gas flows and environment, and the physics of the interstellar/intergalactic medium.
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Emma Lofthouse

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Emma's research interests include integral field spectroscopy, galaxy environment, mergers, galaxy-AGN co-evolution.
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Simon Morris

Professor in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and Centre for Advanced Instrumentation. Simon's research interests include the way in which gas accretes into galaxies, the feedback processes affecting that accretion, and the intergalactic medium.
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Alex Richings

Junior Research Fellow (CoFund) in the Institute for Computational Cosmology. Alex's research interests include galaxy formation, modelling the chemical evolution of ions and molecules in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium, and the physics and chemistry of AGN-driven galactic outflows.
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Tom Shanks

Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Tom's research interests include extragalactic astronomy and cosmology.
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Calvin Sykes

PhD student in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and Institute for Computational Cosmology. Calvin's research interests include reionization and galaxy evolution.
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Tom Theuns

Professor in the Institute for Computational Cosmology. Tom's research interests include the ionisation and metal enrichment history of the intergalactic medium.
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Louise Welsh

PhD student in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy. Louise's research interests include the nature of dark matter and the origin of the first elements.
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