Summary
I am a cosmologist, and currently head of the Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics.
Research Interests
Statistical Cosmology. Testing cosmological theories: Bayesian probability; Theory and analysis of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave background; Large Scale Structure; Statistics of the galaxy distribution and large scale flows. Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics. Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies -- their detection and use as probes of the history of structure formation.
Projects
The Planck Surveyor Satellite .
Web pages
My blog is more up to date, but not entirely academic.
Teaching
2012-17
- Second-year Quantum Mechanics.
2008-11
- Undergraduate Cosmology
2007-08
- Fourier Series and Transforms for physicsts.
- First-year professional skills seminars
- Third-year professional skills: Presentations
- Second-year laboratory
Publications
Journals
Eskilt JR, Akrami Y, Anselmi S, et al., 2024, Cosmic topology. Part IIa. Eigenmodes, correlation matrices, and detectability of orientable Euclidean manifolds, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol:2024
Dachlythra N, Duivenvoorden AJ, Gudmundsson JE, et al., 2024, The Simons Observatory: Beam Characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes, Astrophysical Journal, Vol:961, ISSN:0004-637X
Li Z, Louis T, Calabrese E, et al., 2023, The Simons Observatory: a new open-source power spectrum pipeline applied to the Planck legacy data, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol:2023, Pages:048-048
Heavens A, Heavens A, Jaffe A, et al., 2023, Almanac: MCMC-based signal extraction of power spectra and maps on the sphere, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Vol:6, ISSN:2565-6120
Loureiro A, Whiteaway L, Sellentin E, et al., 2023, Almanac: Weak Lensing power spectra and map inference on the masked sphere, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Vol:6, ISSN:2565-6120, Pages:1-18