Experience

University of Warwick

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Oct 2020 - Present

  Wrote a population synthesis code which simulated the population of white dwarfs within a volume equivalent to about 9 million times the volume between the Sun and the Earth. This code relied on Monte Carlo methods by sampling various intrinsic parameters of the white dwarfs from different probability density distribution, including the uniform and exponential distributions, as well as more complex distributions from previously published studies. Using this simulation, I was able to derive the history of white dwarfs in our neighborhood. This is an important piece of information needed for other studies both in the white dwarf community and the broader astrophysics community. * First author publication: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220913919C/abstract * The program was written completely in Python. * Talk given at 22nd European Workshop on White Dwarfs held in Tubingen, Germany from 15th to 19th August of 2022. * Helped to organise and created a Microsoft Teams Team for the Summer workshop on white dwarfs and related objects held at virtually at University of Warwick from 5th to 6th of July 2021. During and before the conference I acted as a technician supporting and helping the speakers with technical issues. * Interviewed prospective PhD candidates at the University of Warwick and helped decide who would be offered positions (February 2020). Show less

• • Oct 2016 - Sep 2020

  Working on modelling the helium-dominated atmospheres of white dwarfs using 3D radiation-hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD. White dwarfs are the remnants of 97% of all stars in our Galaxy, and as such are important for studies of stellar evolution and remnant planetary systems. My work is to aid these studies by providing more accurate models of white dwarfs. * First author publications: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.481.1522C, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.490.1010C/abstract and https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.501.5274C/abstract* Programming in Python, IDL, Fortran.* Observed for 6 nights at Mayall telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA for DESI. 5 nights of observations done at WHT telescope in La Palma, Spain. This involved following instructions from other scientists as I was observing their targets, but also being able to adapt their plans for constantly changing atmospheric conditions.* Talks given at: 21st European Workshop on White Dwarfs held in Austin, Texas, USA from 23rd to 27th July of 2018 and Warwick-Birmingham Science Meet-Up held at University of Warwick, Coventry, UK on the 17th December, 2018.* Posters presented: XXIX Canary Islands Winter School for Astrophysics held in La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain from 13th to 17th November 2017 where my poster won the Favourite Poster (Lecturer's vote). Current Challenges in the Physics of White Dwarf Stars conference held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA from 12th to 16th of June, 2017. 2 posters presented at EWASS 2018 held in Liverpool, UK from 3rd to 6th of April, 2018.* The Physics Postgraduate diversity representative for 2 years. * Marking 2nd year undergraduate laboratory (3 years) and teaching 1st year undergraduate laboratory (2 months). Show less



University of Southampton

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Research Project

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  Studying the optical light-curve of a Sakurai's Object-like candidate with Dr. Poshak Gandhi. Studying the optical light-curve of a Sakurai's Object-like candidate with Dr. Poshak Gandhi.