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General Information

Full Name Christopher C. Lovell
Location London, UK
Email christopher dot lovell at port dot ac dot uk
Github christopherlovell
LinkedIn lovellchristopher

Education

  • 2019
    Ph.D Astronomy
    University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
    • AdvisorsProf. Peter Thomas & Dr. Stephen Wilkins
    • TitleExploring the history of star formation in galaxies and its environmental dependence at high redshift.
  • 2013
    Master of Physics in Astrophysics
    School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, UK

Experience

  • 2022 -
    Dennis Sciama Fellow
    Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • 2022
    JSPS Short Term Fellow
    Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • 2019 - 2022
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire
  • 2019
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex
  • 2013 - 2015
    Data Scientist
    Bank of England

Awards, Grants & Successful Proposals

  • 2024
    • Royal Astronomical Society Winton Award (A)
    • Awarded for research by an early career Post Doctoral researcher in a UK institution in astronomy or geophysics
  • 2022
    • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Short Term Fellowship
    • University of Tokyo, Japan, min. 1086000¥ (approx. £7700)
  • 2024
    • CoI on ALMA cycle 11 proposal (PI Giuliano Lorenzon)
    • Hunting the prolonged dust growth in dusty quiescent galaxies at intermediate redshift (2024.1.00814.S)
  • 2023
    • CAMELS-EAGLE - extending the CAMELS suite to new astrophysical models and cosmic environments (PI Chris Lovell)
    • Successful DiRAC 15th call proposal, granted 13.5 million CPU hours on COSMA.
  • 2021
    • Co-I on JWST General Observer Cycle 1 proposal 1791 2 (PI Justin Spilker)
    • The Early Assembly History of the Most Massive Halo in the Reionization Era
  • 2013
    • Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP)
    • Extreme Value Statistics of galaxy voids (approx. £1500)

Teaching, Communication & Outreach

Writing I have written outreach articles on a number of subjects for a wide range of different publications and audiences, including Astrobites, Significance (the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association), and The Conversation.
Webb UK outreach I have performed outreach at a number of events around the UK related to the James Webb Space Telescope, including festivals and talks for societies, talks to the public, schools groups of various ages and astronomy societies.
Lecturing and Tutoring Performed lectures, workshop supervision and marking for a number of courses in physics, astronomy and data science at bachelor, masters and graduate level.
Certified Software Carpentries Instructor The Carpentries Instructors are volunteers who teach foundational computational and data skills to researchers

Supervision and Mentorship

  • 2023 - 2027
    • Sophie Newman
    • Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Portsmouth
    • Supervisors - Claudia Maraston & Christopher Lovell
  • 2021 - 2025
    • Alice E. Matthews
    • Ph.D. Astronomy, University College London
    • Supervisors - Mat Page & Christopher Lovell (external)
  • 2021 - 2028
    • Maxwell Maltz (part-time)
    • Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Sussex
    • Supervisors - Peter Thomas (recently passed away), Stephen Wilkins, Christopher Lovell
  • 2023
    • Qazi Saaheelur Rahaman
    • Undergraduate summer research project
    • Supervisor - Christopher Lovell

Technical Skills

  • Languages: Python, R, C, C++, Intel MPI, OpenMP, Javascript, Git, HTML, LaTeX, bash
  • Software & Packages: Pyro, Tensorflow, Keras, sbi, Scikit-learn, D3, HDF5