Exploring Astrophysics

Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech

Welcome to episode 30 of exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Today I am joined by Dr. Kareem El-Badry, a researcher who works mostly in the analysis of binary

Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech

Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of exploring astrophysics. Today I am speaking to Dr Lynne Hillenbrand, a professor of Astronomy at Caltech who is an expert in th

Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University

Today I am joined by Dr Maria Charisi, a postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt university. Her expertise is in looking for Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries: which are syst

Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

In this episode, Dr Simcoe spoke about his research involving spectroscopy to look back into the early universe and search for the first stars. He also spoke about anothe

Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology

In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in

Dr Christian Byrnes, Senior lecturer at the University of Sussex

Dr Byrnes talked about his journey to astrophysics having initially started out with a Mathematics degree at the University of Cambridge. He also talked about his researc

Dr Javier Garcia, Assistant professor of physics at Caltech

Dr Garcia has been looking at the gravitational fields near black holes and neutron stars to better understand the phenomenon we see in these unordinary circumstances. He

Dr Kathy Romer, Professor at the university of Sussex

Dr Romer shared some of her most exciting and coolest experiences as an astrophysicist, including a trip to the south pole! She also mentioned how in the past astronomers

Dr Raissa Estrela, Postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In this episode Dr Estrela spoke about her research into classifying and charecterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets, and also her research the effects of stellar activi

Dr Olivier Hervet, Assistant project scientist at UC Santa Cruz

Active galactic nuclei are found in the centers of galaxies and emit extremely high levels of radiation, which Dr Hervet tries to model computationally. Dr Hervet is also

Dr Xinnan Du, Outreach and Engagement manager at KIPAC Stanford

This episode Dr Du spoke about some of her work looking at the physical properties of the interstellar medium in distant galaxies. She also spoke about her interest in as

Dr Tansu Daylan, Posdoctoral associate and MIT and Princeton

Dr Daylan, told me about his work on explanets utilising primarily the TESS mission, and how the transit method is used to discover these planets. Additionally, he also s

Dr Rana Ezzeddine, Assistant professor and Astrophysicist as the University of Florida

In this episode Dr Ezzeddine told me about how the chemical and physical compositions of stars can be inferred by the use of spectroscopy. Additionally, she explained wha

Dr Saeed Salimpour, Researcher at IAU's Office of Astronomy for Education

Dr Salimpour explained the intersection between art and cosmology, and why he believes those two things are inextricable. He also delved into how the beauty of simplicity

Sven Heydenreich, PHD student at the University of Bonn

In this episode, Sven spoke to me about his work in gravitational lensing, and more specifically, a novel statistical analysis method he is developing. He also spoke abou

Marcus Keil, PHD student at University College London

In this episode, Marcus spoke to me about his current PHD work as well as his interest in cosmology. He explained a little about Astrochemistry and the research he is doi

Dr Niall Jeffrey, Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris

Dr Jeffery goes into detail about how dark energy and dark matter, two things he is researching extensively, are elusive and that astrophysicists know very little about i

Dr Peter Doel, Professor of Astronomical Instrumentation at University College London

This episode I spoke to Dr Doel about some of the projects he has been working on. He told me about the considerations that need to be accounted for when retrofitting tel

Prof. Marco Cavaglia, Professor of Physics at Missouri University

This episode I spoke to Dr Cavaglia about what the LIGO collaboration is and how it operates, as well as some of the details of the interferometers. He also spoke about t

Dr Boris Leistedt, Researcher at Imperial College London

I spoke to Dr Leistedt on how statistics plays an important role in astronomy, as well as why astronomy is somewhat unique in comparison to other fields of physics such a