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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Anna Puglisi

Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship)

Mr Calvin Sykes PhD

Research Fellow

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries

Dr Christopher Frohmaier

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Daniel Kynoch

Research Fellow in AGN & Compact Obj Var

Dr Daniel Whiter

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Earth's aurora
  • Auroral acceleration and structuring mechanisms
  • Effects of auroral precipitation on the upper atmosphere

Professor Francesco Shankar

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution
  • Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies
  • Radio and Broad Absorption Line Active Galactic Nuclei

Dr Imogen Gingell

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Dr Kamalam Thillaimaharajan

Research Fellow in Auroral Physics