Team
Members and close collaborators of the group.
Project Lead

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
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
PhD Student

Ms. Devika Bhatnagar
PhD Student in the COMPACT group @ MPIfR and the University of Bonn. Research interests: pulsar searching, pulsar timing, high performance computing, machine learning.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany

Mr. Fazal Kareem
PhD Student in the COMPACT group @ MPIfR and the University of Bonn. Research interests: Pulsar Search and Timing, Signal Processing, Compact Objects, Tests of Gravity, and Gravitational Waves.
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany

Mr. Robert Senzel
PhD Student in the COMPACT group @ MPIfR and the University of Bonn. Research interests: Neutron stars, signal processing, pulsar searching and fundamental physics
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
Collaborators

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
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
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
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
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
Senior Researcher at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
Via della Scienza 5 , I-09047 Selargius (Cagliari), Italy

Dr. Alessandro Ridolfi
INAF Astrophysics Fellow at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
Via della Scienza 5 , I-09047 Selargius (Cagliari), Italy