PhD students recently graduated from the ASR department

  Year of Graduation Thesis title Life after Birmingham
Victoria Hamilton-Morris 2011 Optical Read-out Techniques for the Control of Test-masses in Gravitational Wave Observatories Sea Ice Geophysicist, British Antarctic Survey
Stuart Aston 2011 Optical Read-out Techniques for the Control of Test-masses in Gravitational Wave Observatories Research Fellow, Birmingham University
George Dixon 2011 The Mechanical Stability of Instrumentation for Gravitational Wave Detection Mechanical engineering lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
Jonathan Hallam 2011 Diffractive gratings in high-precision interferometry for gravitational wave detection Postdoctoral Researcher, Leicester University
Smriti Mahajan 2011 Star formation and environment of galaxies Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TIFR-NCRA, Pune, India
Nathan Slack 2011 Simulations for the International X-ray Observatory Associate Analyst Programmer,Tessella
Walter Del Pozzo 2010 Black Holes, Galaxy Clusters and Gravitational Waves Post-doctoral fellow, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Holland
Abdulmonem Alshino 2010 Evolution of X-ray and Optical Properties of Galaxy Clusters Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Antonio Perecca 2010 Experimental demonstration of Displacement Noise Free Interferometry Postdoctoral Researcher (Preparation and execution of LISA-Pathfinder), Universita' di Trento, Italy
Ali Dariush 2009 Groups of galaxies from observations and Simulations Postdoctoral Researcher in sub-mm astronomy, Cardiff University, Wales
Samuel George 2009 From Planets to Galaxies; the low frequency radio sky Postdoctoral Researcher in radio polarization science, University of Calgary, Canada
Ria Johnson 2009 Dynamics and Hot gas in groups and Early-Type Galaxies Assistant Methodologist, Office for National Statistics
Emma Robinson 2009 Searches for a stochastic background of gravitational waves Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Alex Stroeer 2009 Data Analysis Strategies for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Postdoctoral research assistant at CRESST, University of Maryland, USA.
Natasha Jackson 2008 The effects of radiation pressure in the brightest neutron star low mass X-Ray binaries QinetiQ
Fabian Pena-Arellano 2008 Characterization of polarization homodyne interferometers Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Dan Reed 2008 Investigations of the dipping, bursting Low Mass X-ray Binary XB1323-619 Systems Engineer/Analyst, BAE Systems
Emmanuele Rocco 2008 Development of a test of Newton's law of gravitation at micrometer distances using a superconducting torsion balance Product Development manager at Stac Group, Rovereto, Italy
Steve Spreckley 2008 A study of variable stars and search for extrasolar planets with the space based photometers SMEI and STEREO British Energy
Rowan Temple 2008 X-ray Observations of Extended Sources Trainee Chartered Accountant - Deloitte
Elizabeth Wickham 2006 The data analysis for laser interferometer space antenna observations of binary inspirals Degree in Circus Arts
Scott Porter 2006 The properties of galaxies in Supercluster filaments Science Department, Windsor High School, Birmingham
Nicola Brassington 2006 The Role of Galaxy Interactions Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nazirah Jetha 2006 X-ray and radio interactions in galaxy groups and clusters Postdoctoral Fellow, Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay, France; University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA
Trevor Miles 2006 The evolution of groups of galaxies PGCE, University of Birmingham
Adam Mercer 2005 Search for a Stochastic Gravitational Wave background Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida, USA
Dave Henley 2005 High-resolution X-ray studies of colliding Stellar winds Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Chris Messenger 2005 Gravitational Waves Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow, UK
John Osmond 2004 The Evolution of Galaxy Groups Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunel University, Middlesex, UK
Richard Ingley 2004 Gravitational instrumentation Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunel University, Middlesex, UK
Gansham Halai 2004 Spectral evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries along the Z-track
Ben Maughan 2004 The X-ray properties of high-redshift galaxy clusters Chandra Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA; now Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Bristol
Antonio Pulido-Paton 2004 Search for a short-range interaction between intrinsic spin and mass using a Spherical Superconducting Torsion Balance (SSTB)    
Joanna Hartwell 2004 An X-ray Study of the Impact of Star formation from Star Clusters to Starbursts Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Dublin, Republic of Ireland
David Acreman 2003 Galaxy wakes Scientific Officer, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Phil Humphrey 2003 Investigations of Galactic and Extragalactic Low Mass X-ray Binaries Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Ewan O'Sullivan 2003 X-ray properties of early-type galaxies Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA; Currently Marie Curie Fellow, University of Birmingham
Simon Ellis 2003 The evolution of high-redshift clusters of galaxies Postdoctoral Fellow, Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, NSW, Australia
Molly Stockton-Chalk 2003 Coronal mass ejections and their coupling to the Earth's magnetosphere Postdoctoral fellow, University of Southampton
Richard Brown 2003 The formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies Sizewell B nuclear power station
Lesley Summers 2003 X-ray Observations of dwarf starburst galaxies Self-employed
C C Chang 2002 Development of an accelerometer for a space-borne gravitational wave detector  
Sachie Shiomi 2002 Test mass metrology for tests of the equivalence principle Research Scientist, Space Geodesy Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Ian Robinson 2002 Injection and Propagation of Energetic Electrons in the Inner Heliosphere Postdoctoral Fellow, University of  Birmingham, UK
Alastair Sanderson 2002 The X-ray scaling properties of virialized systems Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; Now Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham
Rachel Haines 2001 Development of hardware for gravitational wave missions  
Stephen Helsdon 2001 X-ray properties of galaxy groups Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution, Pasadena, CA, USA
Robin Barnard 2001 Spectral evolution during dipping and flaring in low mass X-ray binaries Postdoctoral Fellow, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Edward Lloyd-Davies 2001 Scale dependence in the properties of galaxy clusters Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Then Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sussex
Bruce Fairley 2001 X-ray and optical studies of the evolution of clusters of galaxies Tessella Support services PLC, Cambridge UK
Mark Thurston 2000 X-ray & optical observations of the young open cluster NGC2516 Scientific Patents clerk
Julian Pittard 1999 X-ray emission from colliding stellar winds: theoretical modelling and
observations		 Royal Society fellow, University of Leeds, UK
Jamie Kennea 1999 Multiwavelength observations of the Galactic centre X-ray sources Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara; then University of California, Riverside
Richard Morley 1999 Investigations of the Low Mass X-ray Binary XB 1916-053 Senior Scientific Officer,  Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), Malvern, UK
David Strickland 1998 X-ray emission from starburst-driven galactic winds Chandra Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

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