Research Interests
- remotely controlled and robotic telescopes; networking of robotic telescopes
- extrasolar planets in close binary star systems; Galactic gravitational microlensing searches for planets
- baryonic alternatives to cold DM in galaxies; using stellar dynamics to measure the presence of DM
- the Virtual Observatory (member of the VOEvent and semantic working groups)
- astronomical image processing in schools
Possible Bachelor, Master and Dissertation Projects
- observations of Galactic microlensing objects (M.S., Ph.D.)
- trying to detect exomoons (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- absorption spectroscopy of comet ISON (B.S.)
- detecting the presence of heliospheric microwave emission in WMAP & Planck data (B.S., M.S.)
- modelling the interaction of magnetic stars in close binary systems (B.S., M.S.)
- Raspberry Pi-based intelligent hardware for robotic telescopes (B.S.)
- design of a Nasmyth-baffle for the MONET telescopes (B.S., M.S.)
- autoguider system for the MONET telescopes (M.S.)
- performance of a low-resolution spectrograph for MONET using a curve VPH grating (B.S., M.S.)