Team
Members and close collaborators of the group.
The COMPACT Team at MPIfR
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
Jinchen Jiang
Postdoctoral researcher in the COMPACT group. Research interests : pulsar searching, signal processing, radio polarimetry, single pulse and FRB
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
Dr. Robert Wharton
Postdoctoral researcher in the COMPACT group. Research interests: radio interferometric searches for pulsars, magnetars, and Fast Radio Bursts
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
PhD Students
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 nuclear 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
Mr. Jedrzej Jawor
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany. Research interests: Pulsar timing, Pulsar Timing Arrays, Pulsar search Algorithms, RFI mitigation
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn , Germany
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