I am a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust. I am working at the interface of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) astrophysics and cosmology, focusing on solving the intrinsic dispersion in SN Ia luminosities to improve their standardisation for cosmological analyses. I do this by exploring the correlations between SN Ia luminosity and their host galaxy environments (the largest systematic uncertainty in modern SN cosmology), for both entire host galaxies and sub-galactic local regions.
My current research focuses on “siblings”, SNe Ia in the same host galaxy. Using my HST program, I am investigating the differences in local environments of low-z SNe Ia siblings, to provide the definitive answer to the optimal environmental standardisation for SN Ia cosmology.
Alongside my SN Ia research, I am a core member of the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) collaboration, focusing on the optical follow-up of gravitational-wave events. I co-lead the GOTO citizen science group and Kilonova Seekers citizen science project. This provides an opportunity for members of the public help in the discovery of transient events, participating in cutting-edge science in real-time. I am co-PI of the Kilonova Seekers – LCO: STAR (Surveying Transients with Amateur Researchers) program, a LCO Global Sky Partner. This educational program was specifically designed as an extension of the GOTO Kilonova Seekers citizen science project to enable volunteers to be involved in all aspects of transient astronomy: from discovery, to triggering further observations, to classification; learning how to reduce data, and how to make and analyse light-curves and colour images with guidance and support from the Kilonova Seekers team.
I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth (2021-2024). I did my PhD at the University of Southampton (2017-2021), my MSc in Astrophysics at University College London (2016-2017) and my BSc in Physics at the University of Surrey (2012-2015). Between my BSc and MSc, I worked in astronomy outreach at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
