DISCnet Cohort 2022
Our students are exceptional problem solvers and highly-skilled data specialists.
From their PhD research they bring extensive experience of handling intensive tasks and managing complex data sets and problems to industry placements.
Meet The Students
James Donnellan
University of Sussex
A complete history of star formation with Webb, Herschel and other world-leading observatories
Ruby Pearce-Casey
The Open University
Hunting for Rare Treasure with Machine Learning: Gravitational Lensing and Glitches in the Euclid space telescope and Vera Rubin Observatory
Caley Yardley
University of Sussex
Searching for new physics with measurements of Top+X processes and effective field theory interpretations using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
Harry Ballington
University of Hertfordshire
Impacts of Optical Particle Characteristics on Aerosol-Cloud Microphysics and Links to Aerosol/Air Quality Distributions
University of Sussex
Galaxy clustering for two of the 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) extragalactic surveys: CRS and WAVES.
Brian Bichang'a
University of Hertfordshire
Astronomy, AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
Sophie Butchart
University of Sussex
Supernova detection in DUNE and outreach
Jones Chilufya
University of Hertfordshire
Astronomy: LOFAR studies of radio-loud AGN
Daniel Gillies
University of Sussex
Theory and phenomenology of hadronic jets in the Standard Model and beyond
Akeem Hart
Queen Mary University London
DUNE and MINERvA neutrino experiments
Maxwell Maltz
University of Sussex
Combining zoom simulations and machine learning to generate high-redshift mock galaxy catalogues.
Shravya Shenoy
University of Hertfordshire
Science with the WEAVE-LOFAR survey
Jack Turner
University of Sussex
The colour evolution of the first galaxies
Jessica Lock
University of Sussex
Opaque scintillator detector development and NOvA neutrino experiment analysis