People

The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has a rich history and our reputation for innovative research and teaching is dependant on the people who work and study here.

Find a list of the staff who work with us below.

Academic staff

Richard Battye - Professor of Cosmology
Robert Beswick - Professor of Astrophysics
Rebecca Bowler - Research Fellow
Rene Breton - Professor of Astrophysics
Michael Brown - Professor of Astrophysics
Philippa Browning - Professor of Astrophysics
Philip Bull - Reader in Cosmology
Jens Chluba - Professor of Cosmology
Christopher Conselice - Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy
Philip Diamond - Professor of Astrophysics
Clive Dickinson - Professor of Astrophysics
Gary Fuller - Professor of Astrophysics
Michael Garrett - Sir Bernard Lovell Chair in Astrophysics, Director of JBCA
Keith Grainge - Professor of Astrophysics
Neal Jackson - Reader
Scott Kay - Professor of Astrophysics
Michael Keith - Lecturer in Astrophysics
Eamonn Kerins - Senior Lecturer in Astronomy
Michael Kramer - Professor of Astrophysics
Timothy O'Brien - Professor of Astrophysics
J. Patrick Leahy - Senior Lecturer in Radio Astronomy
Lucio Piccirillo - Professor of Radio Astronomy Technology
Anna Scaife - Professor of Radio Astronomy
Benjamin Stappers - Professor of Astrophysics
Patrick Weltevrede - Senior Lecturer
Laura Wolz - Presidential Fellow (Academic)
Albert Zijlstra - Professor of Astrophysics

Emeritus Professors

Ian Browne - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Andrew Lyne - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
John Meaburn - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Alan Pedlar - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Richard Schilizzi - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Sir Francis Graham Smith - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Ralph Spencer - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics

Honorary Staff

Tyler Bourke - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Robert Braun
Richard Long - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Joseph McMullin - Honorary Professor
Anita Richards - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Andrew Siemion - Honorary Professor
Peter Thomasson - Honorary Fellow
Jeremy Yates - Honorary Professor

Research staff

Sandeep Acharya - Research Associate
Nathan Adams - Research Associate
Danai Antonopoulou - EPSRC Fellow
Avishek Basu - Research Associate
Emmanuel Bempong-Manful - e-MERLIN Research Support Scientist
George Bendo - Research Fellow
Justin Bray - e-MERLIN Research Support Scientist
Iulia Cimpan - e-MERLIN Support Scientist
Steven Cotterill - Research Associate
Steven Cunnington - Research Associate
Angelina Frankowska - Research Associate
Valerio Gilles - Research Associate
Mykola Gordovskyy - Research Fellow
Alastair Gunn - VLBI Support Scientist
Stuart Harper - Research Associate
Fabian Jankowski - Research Associate
Carringtone Kinyanjui - Research Assistant
Soheb Mandhai - Research Associate
Mark McCulloch - Research Associate
William McGenn - Research Associate
Iain Mcdonald - Research Fellow
Lina Preston - Research Associate
Jack Radcliffe - Honorary Research Fellow
Benjamin Shaw - Research Associate
Christopher Skipper - Research Associate
Mayuresh Surnis - Research Associate
James Trussler - Research Associate
Robert Watson - Research Fellow
David Williams-Baldwin - e-MERLIN Research Support Scientist
Nicholas Wrigley - e-MERLIN Support Scientist

Professional services staff

Michael Anderson - Departmental Safety Advisor and Site Manager
Mirza Asif - Telescope Controller
Benjamin Bartle - Telescope Workshop Assistant Technician
James Bartle - Telescope Technician
Tony Blackburn - Receiver and Links Technician
Edward Blackhurst - Receiver Technician
Phillip Clarke - Telescope Supervisor and Design Technician
Raymond Comber - Mechanical Engineer
Robert Dickson - Telescope Controller
John Edgley - Receiver Supervisor
Allan England - Software Developer (Telescope Control)
Adrian Galtress - Draughtsperson
Simon Garrington - Associate Director, Jodrell Bank Observatory. Director of the e-MERLIN VLBI National Facility
Fern Gauntlett - Telescope Controller
John Hamilton - Senior Controller and Servo Lab Supervisor
Paul Harrison - Senior Java Developer
Joseph Holder - Research Project Manager
Anthony Holloway - Head of Computing (JBCA & JBO)
Luke Invernon - Telescope Array Controller
Anthony Johnson - Control Systems Engineer
Kenneth Kelly - Telescope Controller
Oliver King - Servo Lab Technician
John Kitching - Mechanical Engineer
Laura Knighton - Operations Administrator
Francis Manning - Electrical Supervisor
Jason Marshall - Receiver Technician
Simon Melhuish - Cryogenic Engineer
Mitchell Mickaliger - Operational Support Scientist (Pulsars)
Sarah Morris - Operations Administrator
Thomas Muxlow - e-MERLIN Support Scientist
Richard Oberland - SADT Project Engineer
Leslie Parry - Digital / VLBI Technician
Mark Roberts - Telescope Controller
Sotirios Sanidas - IT Manager
Katie Shaw - Operations Administrator
Sarah Smith - Radio Frequency Engineer
Matthew Stubbs - Electrical Technician
Emma Thomas - Operations Administration Assistant
Darren Walker - Software Developer
Richard Whitaker - Electronics Design Engineer
Althea Wilkinson - Senior Domain Specialist
Alan Williams - Telescope Technician

PhD Postgraduate Students

Edoardo Altamura
Andres Ariza
Duncan Austin
Phillip Black
Cameron Bogue
Emma Carli
Oliver Dodge
Katrine Glasscock
Long Jiang
Thomas Kite
Elizabeth Lee
Eunseong Lee
Yang Liu
Geferson Lucatelli
Nico Marrin
Babak Mohammadian
Devina Mohan
Iuliana-Camelia Nitu
Adipol Phosrisom
Bannawit Pimpanuwat
Akshay Priyadarshi
Mariam Rashid
Inigo Slijepcevic
Xiaoxi Song
James Stewart
Georgina Stroud
Thomas Sweetnam
Tinn Thongmeearkom
James Turner
Haoyue Wang
Yongxiong Wang
Jonathan Wong
Mark Wright
Michael Wright

MSc Postgraduate Students

Kwan Lin Kristy Fu
Medha Ganapathiraju
Jaswant Jayacumaar
Joseph Mwatukange
Andrew Oldnall
Pengyue Sun
Beihang Yang
Fujiang Yu