Staff directory
List of staff and postgraduate students in the Institute for Astronomy
Telephone numbers in the list below are shown as UK numbers. Callers from outside the UK should remove the leading zero and use the UK country code (+44).
| Name | Position | Contact details | Location | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic staff | ||||
| James Aird | Professor (Personal Chair) of X-ray Astronomy, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | James.Aird [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C25 |  |
| Ricarda Beckmann | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Ricarda.Beckmann [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Stobie2 | |
| Philip Best | Head of School | pnb [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB 4323b |  |
| Florian Beutler | Professor (Personal Chair) of observational Cosmology, Royal Society University Research Fellow | florian.beutler [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE S5 |  |
| Beth Biller | Professor | bbiller [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE R4 |  |
| Peter Brand | Emeritus Professor | pwb [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE S |  |
| Yan-Chuan Cai | Reader, Royal Society University Research Fellow | cai [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C20 |  |
| Adam Carnall | Chancellor's Fellow | adamc [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 2 | |
| Weiguang Cui | Honorary Fellow | Weiguang.Cui [at] ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Fergus Cullen | Reader in Observational Astronomy | fergus.cullen [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U18 | |
| Romeel Dave | Chair of Physics | Romeel.Dave [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U14 |  |
| Kenneth Duncan | STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow | kdun [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C21 | |
| James Dunlop | Professor | James.Dunlop [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U16 |  |
| Trent Dupuy | Reader in Observational Astronomy | tdupuy [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U15 | |
| Annette Ferguson | Professor of Observational Astrophysics | annette.ferguson [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C15 | |
| Alex Hall | Royal Society University Research Fellow | ahall [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 3 |  |
| Catherine Heymans | Professor | heymans [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE R7 |  |
| Laura Keating | Royal Society University Research Fellow | Laura.Keating [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 3 |  |
| Sadegh Khochfar | Personal Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics | sadeghk [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C19 |  |
| Sergey Koposov | Professor, Personal Chair of Astronomy | Sergey.Koposov [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C24 |  |
| Andy Lawrence | Professor | al [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C14 |  |
| Bob Mann | Professor | rgm [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C14 |  |
| Ross McLure | Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics | rmclure [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U17 | |
| Avery Meiksin | Professor | aam [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U16 |  |
| Cyrielle Opitom | Reader | copi [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.05 | |
| John Peacock | Professor | jap [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C20 |  |
| Jorge Peñarrubia | Honorary Professor | jorpega [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C15 |  |
| Alkistis Pourtsidou | Professor (Personal Chair) of Theoretical Astrophysics | alkistis.pourtsidou [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 5 | |
| Ken Rice | Personal Chair of Computational Astrophysics | wkmr [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 1 |  |
| Sarah Rugheimer | Chancellor's Fellow | s.rugheimer [at] ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Britton Smith | Reader | Britton.Smith [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U14 |  |
| Colin Snodgrass | Professor | colin.snodgrass [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE H1.05 | |
| Andy Taylor | Professor of Astrophysics | ant [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U15 |  |
| Steve Tobias | Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics | S.Tobias [at] ed.ac.uk | JCMB 1504 | |
| Anna Lisa Varri | Reader, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Anna.Varri [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C15 |  |
| Alison Young | Honorary Fellow | alison.young [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Joe Zuntz | Professor of Cosmology | Joe.Zuntz [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Stobie 1 |  |
| Research staff | ||||
| Tom Callingham | Postdoctoral Research Associate | t.callingham [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE R12 | |
| Zhaoting Chen | Postdoctoral Research Associate | zhaoting.chen [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Rory Claydon | Senior Scientist / Software Developer | rory.claydon [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Ross Collins | Senior Survey Astronomy Software Developer | rsc [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.02 |  |
| Giuseppe Congedo | Senior Researcher | Giuseppe.Congedo [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE R13 |  |
| Chiara Crociati | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Galaxy Archaeology | ccrociat [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Nicholas Cross | Senior Scientist / Software Developer | njc [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.04 |  |
| William d'Assignies Doumerg | Postdoctoral Research Associate | wdassig [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C13 | |
| Daniel Dicken | Visitor | v1ddicke [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Abbie Donaldson | Postdoctoral Research Associate | donaldso [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U7 | |
| Veronika Dornan | Postdoctoral Research Associate | vdornan [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Higgs 1.19 | |
| Chris Duncan | Euclid UK Science Ground Segment PSF and WL Specialist | christopher.duncan [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Sophia Flury | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | sflury [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U13 | |
| Clémence Fontanive | Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship | clemence.fontanive [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE R8 | |
| Lilian Garratt-Smithson | Postdoctoral Research Associate | lgarratt [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U13 | |
| Anna Genina | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Simulations of Stellar Ha | agenina [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Jindra Gensior | Postdoctoral Research Associate | jgensior [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C19 | |
| Gordon Gibb | Euclid UK-SGS Senior Research Scientist/Developer | Gordon.Gibb [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Benjamin Giblin | Postdoctoral Research Associate | bengib [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Higgs 1.18 | |
| Marcin Glowacki | Postdoctoral Research Associate | mglowack [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C19 | |
| Lisa Goh | Research Fellow in Dark Energy and Modified Gravity Studies. | lgoh [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE R3 | |
| Aritra Gon | Postdoctoral Research Associate | agon [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Alexander Gordon | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Alexander.Gordon [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U4 | |
| Caroline Guandalin | Postdoctoral Research Associate | cguandal [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB R6 | |
| Catherine Hale | Research Fellow | Catherine.Hale [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C18 | |
| Nigel Hambly | Senior Researcher | nch [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Higgs H1.06 |  |
| Michael Hawkins | Visiting Researcher | mrsh [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE R15 | |
| Mark Holliman | Senior Data Systems Specialist | msh [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.02 |  |
| Danny Horta Darrington | Marie Curie Research Fellow | dhorta [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Malcolm Illingworth | Senior Research Software Engineer | m.illingworth [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Higgs H1.08 | |
| Jean, Maël Kempf | Postdoctoral Research Associate | jkempf [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB 1602 | |
| Pete Kuzma | Postdoctoral Research Associate | pete.kuzma [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U12 | |
| Hin Leung | Postdoctoral Research Associate | hleung2 [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Derek McLeod | PDRA | derek.mcleod [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE ET | |
| Erica Bufanda Molnar-Bufanda | Postdoctoral Research Associate | emolnar [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Brendan O'Brien | Senior Research Software Engineer | brendan.obrien [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.03 | |
| Marcos Pellejero | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure | mpelleje [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C13 | |
| Corey Pirie | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Corey.Pirie [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C13 | |
| Amy Rankine | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | Amy.Rankine [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C18 | |
| Michael Read | PGRA | mar [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.02 |  |
| Naomi Robertson | PDRA | naomi.robertson [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U12 | |
| James Robinson | Postdoctoral Research Associate | james.robinson [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U7 | |
| Nicholas Rowell | Senior Sky Survey Researcher | nr [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.03 | |
| Agata Rożek | Space Sustainability Data Scientist | a.rozek [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Matus Rybak | Royal Society University Research Fellow | mrybak [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Jascha Schewtschenko | Senior Scientist / Software Developer | jascha.schewtschenko [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Dirk Scholte | Postdoctoral Research Associate | dscholte [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Terence Sloan | LSST:UK Science Centre Project Manager | T.M.Sloan [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE 1.07 | |
| Thomas Stanton | Postdoctoral Research Associate | t.stanton [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C19 | |
| Giovanni Strampelli | Royal Society Newton International Fellow | gstrampelli [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Ben Sutlieff | Postdoctoral Research Associate | ben.sutlieff [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE Higgs 1.20 | |
| Eckhard Sutorius | PDRA | etws [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.08 |  |
| Lizzie Taylor | Postdoctoral Research Associate | etaylo2 [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Eric Tittley | Research Computing Officer | ert [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE U11 |  |
| Alessandro Trinca | Postdoctoral Research Associate | atrinca [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE C19 | |
| Maria Tsedrik | Postdoctoral Research Associate | mtsedrik [at] exseed.ed.ac.uk | ROE R3 | |
| Eduardo Vitral | Royal Society Newton International Fellow | eduardo.vitral [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Peredur Williams | Visiting Researcher | pmw [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Roy Williams | Project Manager / Software Developer WFAU | roy [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.07 | |
| Hon Wah Yeung | Senior Scientist / Software Developer | hyeung [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Emilio Zanatta | Postdoctoral Research Associate | ezanatta [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Other staff | ||||
| Manu Antony | Senior Research Software Engineer | mantony [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| George Beckett | Project Manager | George.Beckett [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Building, Rm 1.01 | |
| James Fawcett-Newell | Euclid UK Science Ground Segment Outreach and Administration Co-ordinator | james.fawcett [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.07 | |
| Kostas Kavoussanakis | Euclid:UKSGS Programme Manager | kavousan [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE H1.07 | |
| Marco Lam | Senior Scientist/Software Developer | mlam [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE H1.01 | |
| Eleanor O'Kane | Communications Officer - LSST:UK | eokane [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Eduardo Toledo Romero | Research Software Engineer (Rubin) | etoledo [at] roe.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Research postgraduates | ||||
| Roman Akhmetshyn | Postgraduate Student | R.Akhmetshyn [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Durrah Alessa | Postgraduate Student | Durrah.Alessa [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Stella Antonogiannaki | Postgraduate Student | M.S.Antonogiannaki [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Lucy Arditi | Postgraduate Student | Lucy.Arditi [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C23 | |
| Thomas Athanasenas | Postgraduate Student | T.Athanasenas [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Jiachen Bai | Postgraduate Student | J.Bai [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Sankalan Bhattacharyya | Postgraduate Student | Sankalan.Bhattacharyya [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Cecilia Bondestam | Postgraduate Student | C.Bondestam [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U10 | |
| Ardiana Bushi | Postgraduate Student | ardiana.bushi [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C23 |  |
| Amanda Byström | Postgraduate Student | Amanda.Bystrom [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U10 |  |
| Richard Cannon | Postgraduate Student | richard.cannon [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Xueqing Chen | Postgraduate Student | xueqing.chen [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C23 | |
| Ho Wan CHENG | Postgraduate Student | ho.wan.cheng [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Matthew Cole | Postgraduate Student | M.Cole [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Giulia Congera | Postgraduate Student | giulia.congera [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Arefeh Daei Rasouli | Postgraduate Student | A.Daei-Rasouli [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Jacob (Haozhe) Dong | Postgraduate Student | H.Dong-22 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Salman Farasi | Postgraduate Student | Salman.Farisi [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| James Fecanin | Postgraduate Student | J.S.Fecanin [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Yixuan Feng | Postgraduate Student | Y.Feng-94 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Patricia Veronica Fort | Postgraduate Student | P.V.Fort [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Pranavi Hiremath | Postgraduate Student | P.Hiremath [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Tanja Holc | Postgraduate Student | tanja.holc [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Isaac Holst | Postgraduate Student | Isaac.Holst [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Jessica Howell | Postgraduate Student | Jess.howell [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Centre for Innovation | |
| George-Luca Iconaru | Postgraduate Student | G.Iconaru [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Evan Jones | Postgraduate Student | evan.jones [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U10 | |
| Ryusei Kano | Postgraduate Student | R.Kano [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Aiza Kenzhebekova | Postgraduate Student | A.Kenzhebekova [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Mishita Khurana | Postgraduate Student | M.Khurana [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Adam Koval | Postgraduate Student | a.koval [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C23 | |
| Jingjing Althea Lai | Postgraduate Student | Althea.Lai [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Open Plan Area | |
| Joshua Luke Layton | Postgraduate Student | J.Layton-1 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Winky Hiu Laam Lee | Postgraduate Student | winky.lee [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Sida Li | Postgraduate Student | S.Li-248 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Feng-Yuan Liu | Postgraduate Student | Fengyuan.Liu [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE u10 | |
| Irati Lizaso Berrueta | Visiting Postgraduate Student | I.Lizaso-Berrueta [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Harrison Lo | Postgraduate Student | U.H.Lo [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Kevin Lo | Postgraduate Student | Kevin.Lo [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Leonardo Maggiore | Postgraduate Student | L.Maggiore [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Gracie Rose McGill | Postgraduate Student | G.R.McGill [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Madeleine Kate McLeod | Postgraduate Student | M.K.McLeod-2 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Tushar Meshram | Postgraduate Student | T.R.Meshram [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Valentina Miranda | Postgraduate Student | V.P.Miranda [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Ankit Mishra | Postgraduate Student | ankit.mishra [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Ben Mitchell | Postgraduate Student | B.Mitchell-8 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Bereket Assefa Moltote | Postgraduate Student | B.A.Moltote [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Sara Muñoz Torres | Visiting Postgraduate Student | S.Munoz-Torres [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Flavia Cristiana Pascal | Postgraduate Student | F.Pascal [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE C23 | |
| Jade Piat | Postgraduate Student | jade.piat [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Giulia Pruto | Postgraduate Student | Giulia.Pruto [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs | |
| Koloina Rambeloson | Postgraduate Student | K.R.Rambeloson [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Hima Ramrooch | Postgraduate Student | H.Ramrooch [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Finn Roper | Postgraduate Student | finn.roper [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE U10 | |
| Jay Stephan | Postgraduate Student | J.J.Stephan [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Struan Stevenson | Postgraduate Student | struan.stevenson [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Building | |
| Elena Tannock | Postgraduate Student | elena.tannock [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Linus Thummel | Postgraduate Student | linus.thummel [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Building | |
| Edward Turner | Postgraduate Student | E.Turner-11 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Zhenyu Wu | Postgraduate Student | Zhenyu.Wu [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| zhen Xiang | Postgraduate Student | Zhen.Xiang [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Yunchen Xie | Visiting Postgraduate Student | Y.Xie-102 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Hong-Gang Yang | Postgraduate Student | Hong-Gang.Yang [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Charles Yin | Postgraduate Student | C.Yin-9 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | JCMB | |
| Yunhao Zhang | Postgraduate Student | YunHao.Zhang [at] ed.ac.uk | ROE Higgs Open Plan | |
| Zhuoming Zhang | Visiting Postgraduate Student | Z.Zhang-341 [at] sms.ed.ac.uk | ROE | |
| Wenrui Zhong | Postgraduate Student | Alan.Zhong [at] roe.ac.uk | ROE | |