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The Jodrell Bank Pulsar Group

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Picture of members of the pulsar group 2016, Picture
by Beverley Hancock.  Click to enlarge

Academic Staff
Member Research Area
Prof. Benjamin Stappers
Head of Group
Pulsar timing and searching, emission mechanism, instrumentation
Dr. Patrick Weltevrede Emission mechanism, polarisation, timing
Dr. Michael Keith Square Kilometre Array, pulsar searching and timing
Dr. Rene Breton Pulsars, transients, binary systems, neutron star equations of state
Prof. Andrew Lyne Pulsar timing & searching, instrumentation
Prof. Sir Francis Graham-Smith Pulsar timing & searching, instrumentation
Prof. Ralph Spencer X-ray binaries, cosmic rays, instrumentation
Technical Staff
Member Research areas
Dr. Christine Jordan Timing & Searching, data processing, software development
Dr. Mitchell Mickaliger Operational Support Scientist (pulsars)
Dr. Sally Cooper Project Manager
Dr. Mateusz Malenta Software developer
Dr. Sotiris Sanidas MeerKAT


Postdoctoral Researchers Postgraduate Researchers
Member Research area Member Research area
Dr. Manisha Caleb
Fast radio bursts, polarisation, MeerKAT Crispin Agar Emission, polarisation
Dr. Colin Clark Gamma ray pulsars, Fermi Tian Bezuidenhout MeerKAT
Dr. Fabian Jankowski MeerKAT Laura Dreissen Flare stars, scattering, MeerKAT
Dr. Tana Joseph X-ray binaries Zafirah Hosenie Machine learning, pulsar searching
Dr. Mark Kennedy Compact binaries Cristina Ilie Emission, polarisation
Dr. Rob Lyon Pulsar searching, machine learning Xaio Jin Liu High precision timing
Dr. Benetge Perera Pulsar timing, emission modelling Vincent Morello Pulsar searching
Dr. Lina Levin Preston Magnetars, Square Kilometre Array Elliot Polzin Binary pulsars
Dr. Kaustubh Rajwade Fast radio bursts Tom Scragg Instrumentation
Dr. Benjamin Shaw Timing, SKA, glitches Xaioxi Song Pulsar variability
Dr. Guillaume Voisin Pulsar emission James Stringer Binary pulsars
Dr. Charlie Walker Fast radio bursts, SKA Chia Min Tan Pulsar searching, LOFAR
Recent members Mateusz Malenta Fast radio bursts, GPU computing, transient searching
Sofia Mohamed
Dr. James Mckee
Matthew Kim
Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharyya
Dr. Jayanta Roy
Dr. Prabu Thiagaraj
Dr. Simon Rookyard
Dr. Monika Obrocka
Dr. Mark Purver
Dr. Cees Bassa
Dr. Gemma Janssen
Dr. Cristobal Espinoza
Dr. Rob Ferdman
Dr. Roy Smits
Dr. Kuo Liu
Dr. Tom Hassall
Dr. Neil Young
Dr. Phrudth Jaroenjittichai
Dr. Dan Thornton
Lin Wang Searching, globular clusters, LEAP

Photo: Beverley Hancock. September 2016
Front (l-r) Matt, Charlie, Jayanta, Chris, Rene, Xiaojin, Cristina, Bhaswati, Benjamin Shaw, Graham, Ben Stappers
Back row (l-r): Prabu, Tom, Elliot, James, Rob, Mitch, Ben Flint , Mike, Lewis, Ben Perera, Alex, James, Patrick, Andrew, Josh, Huming, Crispin, Garvin, Maria, Chia Min, Lin