EPTA People

The European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration consists of members from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities, as well as those at various stages in their researh careers. Here is a listing of our members.

Dalal Ait Allal
PhD student
Station de radioastronomie/Radiotélescope de Nançay
email: dalal [dot] ait_allal [at] obs-nancay [dot] fr
Main interests: Instrumentation, signal processing, radio frequency interference mitigation
Cees Bassa
Postdoc
JBCA/University of Manchester
email: bassa [at] jb [dot] man [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: LEAP
Marta Burgay
Staff Astronomer
INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
email: burgay [at] ca [dot] astro [dot] it
Main interests: Pulsar searching and timing; multiwavelength observations of AMXPs, AXPs and RRATs
David Champion
Staff
MPIfR Bonn
email: champion [at] pulsarastronomy [dot] net
Main interests:
Ismaël Cognard
Staff astronomer
LPC2E-CNRS/Radiotélescope de Nançay
email: icognard [at] cnrs-orleans [dot] fr
Main interests: Instrumentation, millisecond pulsars, long-term timing, multi-wavelength observations, giant pulses
Alessandro Corongiu
Postdoc
Osservatorio Astronomice di Cagliari
email: corongiu [at] ca [dot] astro [dot] it
Main interests: EPTA
Grégory Desvignes
Postdoc
Berkeley University
LPC2E-CNRS/Radiotélescope de Nançay
email: gdesvignes [at] astro [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
Main interests: Instrumentation, millisecond pulsars, long-term timing, binary evolution, pulsar surveys, P-alpha, ATA
Ralph Eatough
Postdoc
MPIfR Bonn
email: ralph [dot] eatough [at] pulsarastronomy [dot] net
Main interests:
Robert Ferdman
Postdoc
JBCA; University of Manchester
email: ferdman [at] jb [dot] man [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: Millisecond pulsars, binary evolution, GR tests, long-term timing
Rutger van Haasteren
PhD student
Leiden Observatory
email: haasteren [at] strw [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl
Main interests: Bayesian pulsar timing (array) data analysis, GWB detection
Jason Hessels
Staff Astronomer
ASTRON/Universiteit van Amsterdam
email: hessels [at] astron [dot] nl
Main interests: Millisecond pulsars, fast radio transients, low-frequency observations, pulsar searches, pulsars in globular clusters
Tim Ikin
Technical Support
JBCA/University of Manchester
email: timothy [dot] ikin [at] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests:
Gemma Janssen
Postdoc
JBCA/University of Manchester
email: gemma [dot] janssen [at] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: Pulsar timing, combining data sets from various telescopes, LEAP
Axel Jessner
Staff Astronomer
MPIfR Bonn
email: jessner [at] mpifr [dash] bonn [dot] mpg [dot] de
Main interests:
Chris Jordan
Technical Support
Jodrell Bank Observatory
email: caj [at] jb [dot] man [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: Timing and search observations, software development, data processing
Ramesh Karuppusamy
Postdoc
MPIfR Bonn
email: ramesh [at] mpifr [dash] bonn [dot] mpg [dot] de
Main interests: LEAP
Michael Kramer
Institute Director/Professor
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie/University of Manchester
email: mkramer [at] mpifr-bonn [dot] mpg [dot] de
Main interests: Searching, timing
Kosmas Lazaridis
PhD student
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn/Universität zu Köln
email: klazarid [at] mpifr-bonn [dot] mpg [dot] de
Main interests: Millisecond pulsar timing, radio spectra of magnetars
Patrick Lazarus
PhD student
MPIfR
email: plazarus [at] mpifr-bonn [dot] mpg [dot] de
Main interests: Pulsar searching and timing
K.J. Lee
Postdoc
MPIfR, Bonn
email: kjlee007 [at] gmail [dot] com
Main interests: LEAP
Yuri Levin
Professor
University of Leiden
email: yuri [at] lorentz [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl
Main interests:
Kuo Liu
PhD student
JBCA/University of Manchester
email: kuo [dot] liu [at] student [dot] manchester [dot] ac [uk]
Main interests:
Chiara Mingarelli
PhD Student
University of Birmingham
email: chiara [at] star [dot] sr [dot] bham [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: looking for the stochastic gravitational wave background by using Bayesian statistics
Maura Pilia
PhD student
Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
email: mpilia [at] ca [dot] astro [dot] it
Main interests: Gamma-ray observations of neutron stars, glitches
Andrea Possenti
Staff Astronomer
INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
email: possenti [at] ca [dot] astro [dot] it
Main interests: Pulsar searching and timing in radio, X-ray and gamma-ray bands
Mark Purver
PhD student
JBCA/University of Manchester
email: mark [dot] purver [at] postgrad [dot] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests:
Sotirios Sanidas
PhD student
University of Manchester/Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
email: sanidas [at] jb [dot] man [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: Pulsar timing, gravitational wave background, cosmic strings
Roy Smits
Postdoc
Astron
email: smits [at] astron [dot] nl
Main interests: LEAP
Ben Stappers
Senior Lecturer
University of Manchester/Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
email: Ben.Stappers [at] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk
Main interests: Pulsar timing, emission mechanism, pulsar searching, instrumentation
Gilles Theureau
Staff astronomer
Observatoire de Paris/Radiotélescope de Nançay
email: theureau [at] cnrs-orleans [dot] fr
Main interests: Millisecond pulsars, long-term timing, multi-wavelength observations, stellar evolution, cosmology
Joris Verbiest
Postdoc
MPIfR Bonn
email: joris [dot] verbiest [at] gmail [dot] com
Main interests: (Long-term) MSP timing, ISM