European Space Agency 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 Fellow 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) |
LEAPS 2024 & 2025ESTEC coordinator for the Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS) in 2024 & 2025. |
PhD DefencesMember of the PhD defence panel for Dr Deepak Eappachen on 20/11/2023, and for Dr Anne Inkenhaag on 25/09/2024. |
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 ReleasesThe studies described in Chrimes et al. (2024) and Chrimes et al. (2020) were publically disseminated via press releases (available here and here. |
ESA Space Science Workshop (SSW) 17Akersloot, the Netherlands (February 2025)Presented "Neutron star-white dwarf binaries: a plausible pathway for long duration gamma-ray bursts from compact object mergers?". |
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2024Padova Congress, Padova, Italy (July 2024)Gave two talks titled, "AT2023fhn: multi-wavelength observations of a luminous fast blue optical transient at a large offset from its host galaxy" and "Gamma-ray bursts and their circumstellar media: bridging the gap between observation and theory". |
Supernova Remnants IIIChania, Greece (June 2024)Gave a talk on "New Insights into the Galactic magnetar population". |
Gravitational waves: a new ear on the chemistry of galaxies (Lorentz Workshop)Leiden, the Netherlands (April/May 2024) |
Fast Evolving Extragalactic Transients (FEET)Bormio, Italy (February 2024) |
ESA Space Science Workshop (SSW) 16Aranjuez, Spain (January 2024)Presented "AT2023fhn (the Finch) and other animals". You can find the slides here. |
ASTRON/JIVE ColloquiumASTRON/JIVE, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands (16 November 2023)Gave a talk on "AT2023fhn (the Finch) & other animals". |
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023ICE Conference Centre, Krakow, Poland (July 2023)Organised and chaired a session, "magnetars as central engines across the Universe", and presented a poster, "revealing the progenitors of Galactic supernovae with Gaia, Euclid and more". |
Nederlandse Astronomenconferentie (NAC) 2023Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (hosted by ASTRON, May 2023)Gave a talk on "The Search for Galactic Supernova Runaways". |
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". |
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. |
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. |
Observing Time AwardedTime awarded on the following programmes: (i) 15 orbits of HST to measure the proper motion of Galactic magnetar near-infrared counterparts, (ii) two joint programmes (XMM+VLT+CXO+HST, 2025 and CXO+HST+VLA+Gemini, 2023) to comprehensively observe new LFBOTs, (iii) VLT programmes in P108, P110, P113 and P115 to observe a magnetar wind nebula, rapidly respond to an FRB alert, and to characterise a candidate magnetar counterpart, (iv) four INT programmes (2020A, 2022B, 2023A, 2023B) to observe host galaxy candidates of GW sources, (v) 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. |
Seminar/colloquium organiserI am the current organiser of the ESA space science faculty breakfast seminar series, and was previously an organiser of Radboud astrophysics colloquiua (2022-2023). |
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. |