The Group
PI
Will Handley
- PI from Oct 2020
- Post-Doc from Oct 2016 to Oct 2020
- PhD student from Oct 2012 to Sep 2016
- Group research papers (147)
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Post-Docs
PhD students
Toby Lovick
- PhD student from Oct 2024
- Part III student from Oct 2022 to Jun 2023
- co-supervised with Suhail Dhawan
- Summer student from Jul 2023 to Sep 2023
- co-supervised with Suhail Dhawan
- Group research papers (1)
Namu Kroupa
- PhD student from Oct 2023
- co-supervised with Gábor Csányi
- Summer student from Jun 2023 to Sep 2023
- Group research papers (2)
Dily Ong
- PhD student from Oct 2023
Sam Leeney
- PhD student from Oct 2023
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo, Harry Bevins
- MPhil student from Apr 2022 to Dec 2022
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo
- Thesis: Data science in early universe Cosmology: a novel Bayesian RFI mitigation approach using numerical sampling techniques
- Group research papers (2)
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Metha Prathaban
- PhD student from Oct 2022
- Part III student from Oct 2020 to Jun 2021
- Thesis: Evidence for a Palindromic Universe
- Group research papers (2)
Adam Ormondroyd
- PhD student from Oct 2021
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby, Mike Hobson
- Group research papers (1)
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Part III students
Harvey Williams
- Part III student from Oct 2024
Ming Yang
- Part III student from Oct 2024
Will Templeton
- Part III student from Oct 2024
Charlotte Priestley
- Part III student from Oct 2024
- co-supervised with Harry Bevins
- Summer student from Jul 2024 to Aug 2024
- co-supervised with Harry Bevins
Past Post-Docs
Thomas Gessey-Jones
- Post-Doc from Apr 2024 to Aug 2024
- PhD student from Oct 2020 to Mar 2024
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anastasia Fialkov
- Thesis: Probing the First Stars with the 21-cm Signal: Theory, Methods, and Forecasts
- Part III student from Oct 2019 to Jun 2020
- Thesis: Initial Conditions Before Inflation
- Group research papers (10)
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- Subsequent career:
- Aug 2024: PhysicsX
Kamran Javid
- Post-Doc from Oct 2018 to Oct 2019
- PhD student from Oct 2017 to Sep 2018
- Group research papers (2)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: Arabesque (finance)
Past PhD students
Ayngaran Thavanesan
- PhD student from Oct 2021 to Jan 2023
- co-supervised with David Stefanyszyn
- Group research papers (1)
Kilian Scheutwinkel
- PhD student from Dec 2020 to Aug 2024
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo
- Group research papers (5)
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- Subsequent career:
- Sep 2024: TRGC (Venture fund focussed on digital assets)
Thomas Mcaloone
- PhD student from Jun 2020 to Sep 2021
- co-supervised with Keith Grainge, Malak Olamaie
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2021: Data scientist (PolyChord Ltd)
Isidro Gomez Vargas
- PhD student from Mar 2020 to Dec 2020
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- Subsequent career:
- Nov 2021: Postdoc at UNAM (mexico)
Harry Bevins
- PhD student from Oct 2019 to Mar 2023
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anastasia Fialkov
- Thesis: A Machine Learning-enhanced Toolbox for Bayesian 21-cm Data Analysis and Constraints on the Astrophysics of the Early Universe
- Group research papers (13)
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- Subsequent career:
- Apr 2023: Postdoc in Cambridge (Eloy)
- Oct 2023: Cambridge Kavli Fellowship
Ian Roque
- PhD student from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023
- co-supervised with Nima Razavi-Ghods
- Thesis: EXCALIBRATE: Calibration for astrophysical experimentation
- MPhil student from Oct 2018 to Sep 2019
- co-supervised with Nima Razavi-Ghods
- Thesis: Bayesian Techniques for the Calibration of 21 cm Global Experiments
- Group research papers (4)
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- Subsequent career:
- Aug 2024: Stanford SLAC staff engineer
Dominic Anstey
- PhD student from Oct 2018 to Sep 2022
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo
- Thesis: Data Analysis in Global 21cm Experiments: Physically Motivated Bayesian Modelling Techniques
- Group research papers (8)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: Postdoc at Cambridge (UK)
Fruzsina Agocs
- PhD student from Oct 2017 to Sep 2021
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby, Mike Hobson
- Thesis: Primordial evolution of cosmological perturbations: Theory and computation
- Part III student from Oct 2016 to Jun 2017
- Thesis: The Runge–Kutta–Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin method and the primordial Universe
- Group research papers (6)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2021: 3y fellowship CCM New York
- Oct 2024: Assistant Professor at Boulder, Colorado
Will Barker
- PhD student from Oct 2017 to Aug 2021
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby, Mike Hobson
- Group research papers (4)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2021: 3y Junior Research Fellowship (Girton, Cambridge)
- Oct 2024: 2y Marie Curie fellowship prague
Lukas Hergt
- PhD student from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby, Mike Hobson
- Group research papers (5)
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- Subsequent career:
- Jan 2021: 4-year cosmology fellowship in UBC
Ed Higson
- PhD student from Oct 2016 to Oct 2018
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby, Mike Hobson
- Thesis: Bayesian Methods and machine Learning in Astrophysics
- Group research papers (6)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2017: Goldman Sachs (UK finance)
- May 2020: DE Shaw (US finance)
Past MPhil students
Danielle Dineen
- MPhil student from Oct 2022 to Sep 2023
- Thesis: Cosmological Matching Conditions for Primordial Perturbations
- Group research papers (1)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2023: PhD in Cosmology, Toronto
Allahyar Sahibzada
- MPhil student from Oct 2021 to Dec 2022
- Thesis: Machine Learning and Nested Sampling: in the context of data intensive science and cosmology
Emma Shen
- MPhil student from Oct 2019 to Sep 2020
- co-supervised with Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anastasia Fialkov
- Thesis: Ionospheric Effects in the Global 21-cm Experiment
- Group research papers (4)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2021: PhD in Radio astronomy, Cambridge
Panagiotis Mavrogiannis
- MPhil student from Oct 2017 to Sep 2018
- co-supervised with Anthony Lasenby
- Thesis: Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory of radiation: Establishing the cosmological electrodynamic arrow of time
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2018: PhD in Astrophysics, Thessaloniki, Greece
Past Part III students
Tze Goh
- Part III student from Oct 2023 to Jun 2024
- co-supervised with Suhail Dhawan
- Thesis: Bayesian Model Selection of Anisotropic Cosmologies with Type Ia supernova data
Felicity Ibrahim
- Part III student from Oct 2023 to Jun 2024
- Thesis: Higher order solvers for cosmological perturbations
Zixiao Hu
- Part III student from Oct 2022 to Jun 2023
- Thesis: Approximating the end of nested sampling
- Summer student from Jun 2023 to Aug 2023
- Group research papers (1)
Sankalan Bhattacharyya
- Part III student from Oct 2022 to Jun 2023
- Thesis: Jordan-Magnus Methods for Cosmological Perturbation Theory
Cole Meldorf
- Part III student from Oct 2022 to Jun 2023
- Thesis: Bayesian inference and the shape of the primordial universe
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Carola Zanoletti
- Part III student from Oct 2021 to Jun 2022
- Thesis: Palindromic Universes: Alternative Solution by Matrix Representation
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: PhD in cosmology, Nottingham
Oliver Normand
- Part III student from Oct 2021 to Jun 2022
- Thesis: Bayesian reconstructions of the primordial universe from Planck CMB data
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: Management consultancy
Xy Wang
- Part III student from Oct 2021 to Jun 2022
- Thesis: Accelerated nested sampling with proposal prior mixing for Bayesian inference
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: PhD in Quantum Computing, Germany
Yoann Launay
- Part III student from Oct 2021 to Jun 2022
- Thesis: Primordial Non-Gaussianity from kinetic initial conditions for inflation
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: PhD in Cosmology, DAMTP
Yi Jer Loh
- Part III student from Oct 2020 to Jun 2021
- Thesis: Constructing Non-Linear Cosmological Tension Coordinate with Neural Networks
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2021: Data Scientist, Spotify
Aleksandr Petrosyan
- Part III student from Oct 2019 to Jun 2020
- Thesis: Accelerated nested sampling in the context of cosmological parameter estimation
- Group research papers (1)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2020: Lead cryptography engineer, Armenia
Deaglan Bartlett
- Part III student from Oct 2018 to Jun 2019
- Thesis: The Conformal Boundary at the End of the Universe
- Group research papers (2)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in Astrophysics, Oxford
- Oct 2022: Postdoc in IAP, Paris
Jamie Bamber
- Part III student from Oct 2018 to Jun 2019
- Thesis: Beyond the Runge-Kutta-Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method
- Group research papers (1)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in Astrophysics, Oxford
Jessica Rigley
- Part III student from Oct 2017 to Jun 2018
- Thesis: Cosmologically Investigating the Neutrino Hierachy
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in astronomy, IoA
Ward Haddadin
- Part III student from Oct 2017 to Jun 2018
- Thesis: The Primordial Power Spectrum of Kinetically Dominated Universes
- Summer student from Jun 2018 to Sep 2018
- Group research papers (1)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2018: PhD in Particle physics theory, DAMTP
Daniel Manela
- Part III student from Oct 2016 to Jun 2017
- Thesis: Affine-invariant ensemble sampling with applications to LIGO data
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: Msc Computational stats & ML, UCL
- Jan 2021: statistical/ML engineer at UCB Pharmaceuticals
- Oct 2022: PhD in ML, Oxford
Bob Knighton
- Part III student from Oct 2016 to Jun 2017
- Thesis: Investigations into the Kinetically Dominated Universe
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in theoretical cosmology, ETH Zurich
- Oct 2023: Postdoc at DAMTP (Cambridge)
Past Summer students
Artyom Baryshnikov
- Summer student from Jun 2022 to Aug 2022
- Group research papers (1)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: MSc in Cyber Security in Edinburgh
Beichen Xu
- Summer student from Jun 2022 to Sep 2022
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: Physics in Birmingham
Mary Letey
- Summer student from Jun 2022 to Aug 2022
- Group research papers (1)
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- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: Msc in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute
- Oct 2023: PhD in Applied Mathematics, Harvard
Mattia Varrone
- Summer student from Jun 2021 to Sep 2021
Zak Shumaylov
- Summer student from Jun 2021 to Sep 2021
- Group research papers (2)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2022: PhD in machine learning, DAMTP
Denis Werth
- Summer student from Jun 2019 to Sep 2019
- Group research papers (1)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: Masters in Sorbonne, Paris
- Oct 2021: PhD in Astrophysics, Paris (IAP & Sorbonne)
Liam L.H. Lau
- Summer student from Jun 2019 to Sep 2019
- Thesis: Machine learning the future of cosmology experiments
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in Physics, Rutgers (US)
Maxime Jabarian
- Summer student from Jun 2019 to Sep 2019
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- Subsequent career:
- Jan 2022: AI/Cybersecurity startup, Paris
Elizabeth Guest
- Summer student from Jun 2018 to Sep 2018
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: MSc in Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge
- Oct 2022: PhD in exoplanet atmospheres, UCL
Shu-Fan Chen
- Summer student from Jun 2018 to Sep 2018
- Group research papers (1)
- Subsequent career:
- Oct 2019: PhD in Cosmology, Harvard