I have had the privilege of supervising a wonderful group of postdocs, PhD students and undergraduates over the years. Below I list my postdoctoral and doctoral supervisees, with a summary of what we have worked on together.
Postdoctoral researchers
Indranil Banik (Portsmouth, 2024 –) [our papers]
Local solutions to the Hubble tension and the (in)homogeneity of the local Universe.
Ricardo Landim (Portsmouth, 2022 – 2024) [our papers]
Constraining screened scalar-tensor theories of gravity using galaxy dynamics.
PhD students
Deaglan J. Bartlett (Oxford DPhil, 2019 – 2022) [our papers]
Thesis “Fundamental physics from galaxies”: field-level tests of modified gravity and dark matter. Also symbolic regression. Now a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford.
Tariq Yasin (Oxford DPhil, 2019 – 2023) [our papers]
Thesis “Combining kinematic and photometric constraints on the galaxy–halo connection”: Bayesian modelling of HI line profiles and comparison to empirical models of the galaxy-halo connection. Also tests of cosmic anisotropy with clusters. Now a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford.
Richard Stiskalek (Oxford DPhil, 2022 – 2026) [our papers]
Thesis “Constrained simulations of the local Universe as a laboratory for precision cosmology and astrophysics”: Leveraging constrained large-scale structure simulations for new tests of cosmology and galaxy formation: the cosmography of the local Universe, peculiar-velocities, the distance ladder, H₀ inference and various other things.
Alicia Martin (Oxford DPhil, 2023 –) [our papers]
Machine-learning fundamental physics from cosmology, with a focus on symbolic regression of halo properties.
Antonio Najera (Portsmouth, 2024 –) [our papers]
New handles on the cosmic distance ladder: investigating and developing alternative distance-calibration methods, and models for the Hubble tension.
Undergraduate and masters students
I have supervised research projects for over twenty BSc and MPhys/MSci students across Portsmouth, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon, and collaborating institutions, which has led to a great many publications. Get in touch if you’re interested in working with me!