Qualifications
- BSc (University of Hull)
- PhD (University of Manchester)
Summary
I am an astrophysicist at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics and a lecturer in the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM). I work on radio astronomy of pulsars, using some of the most sensitive telescopes in the world. My main areas of research are pulsar timing, the interstellar medium, and single pulse emission from pulsars.
I studied Physics at the University of Hull and was awarded a Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics by The University of Manchester. I have held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
I am a member of several international collaborations including:
Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
North American NanoHertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)
Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP)
European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA)
International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)
The NenuFAR array
Journal Article
Long-term scintillation studies of EPTA pulsars I. Observations and basic results
Liu, Y., Verbiest, J. P., Main, R. A., Wu, Z., Ambalappat, K. M., Champion, D. J., …Theureau, G. (2022). Long-term scintillation studies of EPTA pulsars I. Observations and basic results. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 664, Article A116. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142552
The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy
Koch Ocker, S., Cordes, J. M., Chatterjee, S., Niu, C. H., Li, D., McKee, J. W., …Cruces, M. (2022). The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy. The Astrophysical journal, 931(2), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6504
Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs
Abbott, R., Abe, H., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R., …Weltevrede, P. (2022). Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs. The Astrophysical journal, 935(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf
Detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars
Liu, K., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Gaikwad, M., …Possenti, A. (2022). Detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(3), 4037-4044. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1082