ESA Research FellowEuropean Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, the Netherlands (September 2023 - ) |
Postdoctoral Research FellowRadboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (July 2022 - June 2023) |
Radboud Excellence FellowRadboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (July 2020 - June 2022) |
PhD in AstronomyUniversity of Warwick, Coventry, UK (October 2016 - June 2020)Thesis: The Host Galaxies and Progenitors of Core-Collapse Gamma-Ray Bursts Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Stanway |
Physics with Astronomy MSci (1st, Hons)University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (September 2012 - July 2016)Masters project: The Influence of Environment on Galaxy Evolution (supervisor: Prof Omar Almaini) Third year project: Observing Minor Planets (supervisor: Dr Steven Bamford) |
Undergraduate Physics Laboratory - DemonstratorUniversity of Warwick (October 2016 - May 2019)Demonstrating first year undergraduate core physics laboratories, and first year electronics labs. Building on this teaching experience, I gained associate fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). |
Warwick PlanetariumUniversity of Warwick (October 2016 - March 2020)Over the course of my PhD, I was a frequent volunteer in the departmental outreach programme, taking an inflatable planetarium out to local schools and events on campus. More information about the Warwick planetarium can be found here. |
Outreach at RadboudI have contributed to online panel discussions, school visits and telescopes tours, in addition to giving a lecture as part of a public stargazing evening - more information can be found on the Radboud astrophysics website. |
Press ReleaseThe study described in Chrimes et al. (2020) was publically disseminated in this press release. |
Nova Network 3 MeetingUniversity of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (January 2023)Gave a talk on "New insights into the Galactic magnetar population". |
Supervirtual 2022Virtual (November 2022)Presented a poster on "Searching for runaway stars in the era of precise proper motion surveys", available here . |
Supernova Remnants and their ProgenitorsChandra X-ray Centre, Cambridge, USA (hybrid meeting, August 2022)Gave a virtual presentation on "Predictions for runaway stars in the era of precise proper motion surveys". |
National Astronomy Meeting 2022University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (July 2022)Presented a poster on "Towards an understanding of long gamma-ray burst environments through circumstellar medium population synthesis predictions". |
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2022Palacio de Congresos de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (hosted by the University of Valencia, June/July 2022)Presented a poster on "New insights into the Galactic magnetar population". |
Nederlandse Astronomenconferentie (NAC) 2022Blankenberge, Belgium (hosted by Ghent University, May/June 2022)Gave a talk on "New insights into the Galactic magnetar population." |
IAU Symposium 363: Neutron Star Astrophysics at the CrossroadsVirtual (November/December 2021)Gave a talk on "Where are the Magnetar Binaries?" - the slides are available here - and chaired a parallel session. |
FRB 2021Virtual (July/August 2021)Presented a poster on "An Extragalactic View of the Milky Way Neutron Star Population - and the Implications for Fast Radio Bursts". |
National Astronomy Meeting 2021University of Bath/Virtual (July 2021)Presented a poster on "An Extragalactic View of the Milky Way Neutron Star Population - and the Implications for Fast Radio Bursts". |
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2021Leiden University/Virtual (June/July 2021)Gave a talk on "An Extragalactic View of the Milky Way Neutron Star Population - and the Implications for Fast Radio Bursts", available here. |
The 30th Texas Relativistic Astrophysics SymposiumUniversity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK (December 2019)Gave a talk on "Gamma-Ray Burst Central Engines with Binary Population Synthesis Models". The presentation is available here. |
STSCI Spring Symposium - the Deaths and Afterlives of StarsSpace Telescope Science Insitute, Baltimore, USA (April 2019)Gave a talk "Exploring Progenitor Pathways for Long Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts in Binary Stellar Evolution Models". You can view the talk here. |
National Astronomy Meeting / European Week of Astronomy and Space Science 2018Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, UK (hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, April 2018)Presented a poster on "The Host Galaxies of Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts: Insights from Chandra and HST". |
National Astronomy Meeting 2017University of Hull, Hull, UK (July 2017)Gave a talk on "Investigating a Population of Infrared-Bright GRB Host Galaxies". |
Other MeetingsI have attended several other meetings and workshops, including the STFC introductory summer school in Hull, 2016, the STFC summer school on data science held at the University of Sussex in 2019, the UKSEDs conference at the University of Surrey, 2015, and various smaller one-day meetings at the RAS and Warwick. |
Observing and Observing Time AwardedTime awarded on the following programmes: (i) a joint CXO-HST-VLA-Gemini programme, and time on the LCO network, to comprehensively observe a new FBOT, (ii) two VLT programmes in P108 and P110 to observe a magnetar wind nebula, and rapidly respond to an FRB alert respectively, (iiI) three INT programmes (2020A, 2022B and 2023A) to observe host galaxy candidates of GW sources, (iv) Gemini spectroscopy of a candidate companion star to a magnetar. I am also a member of the STARGATE and ENGRAVE GRB and GW follow-up teams. Other experience includes a trip to aid in the comissioning of GOTO in November 2017. |
Astronomy SecretaryUniversity of Nottingham Physics Society (Physsoc) (March 2015 - March 2016)As astronomy secretary, my primary role was to run regular training sessions for undergraduates on how to use the departmental telescope. The society won a gold STARS award from the Student's Union in 2015/2016. |
Summer Research ProjectUniversity of Nottingham (July - August 2015)A summer research project carried out in the cold atoms laboratries, designing and constructing circuitry for the rapid switch-on of an atom-trapping magnetic field. The project was funded by BP, and I went on to win a poster competition following completion of the project. |