Dr Donnacha Kirk
Research Associate
d.kirk@ null imperial.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
d.kirk@ null imperial.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Room 1013, Level 10
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
I am a Cosmologist, working mainly with Weak Gravitational Lensing (WGL). With Prof. Andrew Jaffe I work on gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background as part of the EBEX and PolarBear experiments.
WGL is also a powerful cosmological probe in the late Universe. In particular I work on minimising the impact of galaxy Intrinsic Alignments and improving cosmological constraints by cross-correlating WGL with other cosmological probes. A lot of this work is done as part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Euclid projects.
I also tutor 2nd year undergraduate Electromagnetism and Statistical Physics.