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UKRI future leaders fellow. associate professor in physics at Royal Holloway. loving astrophysics. esp neutron stars. machine learning. scientific software. EDI

Egham, England
Joined February 2017
This evening at 01:00am on BBC4 - the repeat of this month's The Sky at Night - as we delve into the universe's laboratories of extreme physics - Pulsars. #skyatnight #queenofpulsars
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Is an egg just like a neutron star? Vanessa Graber explains on The Sky at Night: Queen of Pulsars. Available on iPlayer now.
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Squash the population of planet Earth into the size of a teaspoon and you get two things - 1) well acquainted with your neighbours 2) the density of a pulsar. With thanks to Dr Alex Andersson, Dr Kaustubh Rajwade, Dr Adriana Dias and Lucie Robbins #pulsarfacts #skyatnight
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🌟🌟 Are you or anyone you know interested in doing interdisciplinary neutron star research? I am looking to hire 2 postdocs to join me at RHUL in October 2025. One post will focus on cosmic superfluidity, the other on radio pulsar timing. Deadline 28 February 2025. See below.
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🌟🌟 If you or anyone else you know is interested in doing a PhD in neutron star astrophysics and working with me, I am currently looking for 2 PhD students to join me at Royal Holloway for the 2025/2026 academic year. Application deadline is 31 January 2025. More info below.
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A standing ovation for the pianist Nick Naian, who delighted us at the institute's Xmas party with inspiring songs from space movies and beyond. 👏 An exceptional way to end a year full of science! 🚀
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Vanessa Graber retweeted
Academics: please, your recommendation letter does not need to include that the postdoc candidate is “a very pretty and pleasant girl” 😑
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And we are kicking off the final session of our 3rd Athena Meeting dedicated to Athena in the wider context of scientific missions. The first talk by Giorgio Matt is on the Scientific highlights of the IXPE mission #Athena2022
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Aaaand we are back on #Athena2022 with a session all dedicated to instrumentation! Our first (online) speaker is Gunther Hasinger who will present “Athena in the ESA Science Program”.
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We are starting this final session on Wednesday with Nicolas Clerc giving a talk on behalf of Sophie Beaumont on Mapping turbulence in the ICM with the Athena/X-IFU #Athena2022
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Aaaand we are back with our 2nd session, all focused on Athena’s “the Hot Universe” theme! First up, Maria Celeste Artale will present “the large-scale distribution of ionised metals in IllustrisTNG” #Athena2022
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We are starting this third session with a remote contribution from Sanskriti Das on the Surprises from X-ray observations of the hot circumgalactic medium #Athena2022
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And for the in-person attendants: close to the entrance you can find a beautiful “posters’ poster” with a ready-to-be-scanned QR code for every e-poster 🤩
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Don't forget that we have even more @AthenaXobs exciting science to share! All our e-posters are publicly available on the Zenodo platform at this link: zenodo.org/communities/athen…
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Good morning Barcelona! It’s time to kickstart today’s first session! On our first talk, Gabriella Branduardi-Raymond is bringing us closer to home talking about X-ray emissions in our solar system. #athena2022
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An real honor to listen to Jocelyn Bell’s story from her, and to share it with such amazing group! Athena Conference LOC 🚀🌟🥂✨🤟🏼
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A full room for our public lecture tonight by Prof. Bell Burnell about her discovery of pulsars. What a great talk by such a legendary scientist 🤩
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