Nathalie Skrzypek
Postgraduate Student
n.skrzypek10@ null imperial.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 7530
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
n.skrzypek10@ null imperial.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 7530
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Room 1014, 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
Current Work
I am a second year PhD student working with Prof. Steve Warren and looking for extremely rare objects in the NIR using the UKIDSS LAS.
Such rare objects are useful in different ways:
- High-z quasars can shed new light on the epoch of reionisation.
- Ultra cool white dwarfs are very old objects and therefore can contribute in constraining the age of the Milky Way.
- Y-type brown dwarfs are the coolest known class of brown dwarfs that can supply new insights into the atmospheres of Exoplanets.
Background
I graduated with a 1st Class MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics with a Year in the USA from the University of Kent in July 2010. My Masters project was on 'Old Open Starclusters' with Dr. Dirk Froebrich.
I spent the third year of my degree at UC Berkeley and worked on 'Simulations of Microwave SQUIDs in the GHz Range' with Prof. John Clarke and Dr. J.B. Hansen.
Workshops & Schools
2010: STFC Summer School for Astronomy, Warwick
2011: New Horizons for High Redshifts, Cambridge
Posters
NAM 2012, Manchester - A General Search for Rare Objects in UKIDSS (NAM2012_Poster.jpg)
