Team
Members and close collaborators of the group.
Project Lead
![Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan](/assets/img/Vivek.jpg)
Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
Scientific staff at the MPIfR and the project lead of COMPACT. Research interests: Neutron stars, tests of gravity, signal processing and high performance computing.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
Postdoctoral Researchers
![Dr. Vishnu Balakrishnan](/assets/img/Vishnu.jpg)
Dr. Vishnu Balakrishnan
Postdoctoral researcher in the COMPACT group. Research interests : pulsar searching, signal processing, machine learning
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
Collaborators
![Dr. Ewan Barr](/assets/img/EwanBarr.jpg)
Dr. Ewan Barr
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
![Dr. Paulo Freire](/assets/img/Paulo.jpg)
Dr. Paulo Freire
Scientific staff at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
![Dr. Marisa Geyer](/assets/img/MGeyer.jpg)
Dr. Marisa Geyer
Lecturer at UCT Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and researcher in the UCT HEPCAT research group.
University of Cape Town , Rondebosch, 8001 Cape Town , South Africa
![Prof. Michael Kramer](/assets/img/Michael.jpg)
Prof. Michael Kramer
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
![Prof. Matthew Bailes](/assets/img/MatthewBailes.jpg)
Prof. Matthew Bailes
Professor at Swinburne University of Technology and the director of OzGrav centre of excellence
Swinburne University of Technology, H 29, P.O. 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia.
![Dr. Andrea Possenti](/assets/img/Andrea.jpeg)
Dr. Andrea Possenti
Senior Researcher at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
Via della Scienza 5 , I-09047 Selargius (Cagliari), Italy
![Dr. Alessandro Ridolfi](/assets/img/ridolfi.jpg)
Dr. Alessandro Ridolfi
INAF Astrophysics Fellow at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
Via della Scienza 5 , I-09047 Selargius (Cagliari), Italy