Qualifications
- PhD / DPhil (Durham University)
Summary
Physics Research Excellence Framework Lead/ Athena Swan Departmental Champion
Kevin is an experienced British-Australian observational astronomer, having worked in multiple research intensive institutions across two continents.
He read his PhD at the University of Durham (Collingwood College) and, following more than a decade in Australia, returned to the UK in 2014.
His core research interests cover a number of modern astrophysical topics and issues in the umbrella areas of extra-galactic astronomy and astrophysics, large-scale structure of the Universe and cosmology.
Journal Article
The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology
Porter, L. E., Holwerda, B. W., Kruk, S., Lara-López, M., Pimbblet, K. A., Henry, C. P., Casura, S., & Kelvin, L. S. (2023). The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), 5768-5780. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1125
Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder
Bartlett, O. J., Benoit, D. M., Pimbblet, K. A., Simmons, B., & Hunt, L. (2023). Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 6318-6329. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad665
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images
Pimbblet, K. A., Martínez-Lombilla, C., Brough, S., Montes, M., Baena-Gallé, R., Akhlaghi, M., Infante-Sainz, R., Driver, S. P., Holwerda, B. W., & Robotham, A. S. (2023). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Extended intragroup light in a group at z = 0.2 from deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 1195-1213. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3119
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms
Smith, D., Haberzettl, L., Porter, L. E., Porter-Temple, R., Henry, C. P., Holwerda, B., López-Sánchez, R., Phillipps, S., Graham, A. W., Brough, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Liske, J., Kelvin, L. S., Robertson, C. D., Roemer, W., Walmsley, M., O’Ryan, D., & Géron, T. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: galaxy morphology in the green valley, prominent rings, and looser spiral arms. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(3), 4575-4589. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2258
Research interests
Primary areas
- Galaxy evolution, formation, and environment over cosmologically significant timescales
- Stellar populations inside galaxies and their response to their physical environment
- Clusters and superclusters of galaxies, their kinematics, constituents, and growth
- Star formation in galaxies, and active galactic nuclei
- Brightest cluster galaxies (cD galaxies), and dwarf galaxies
- Filaments of galaxies that stretch between galaxy clusters, voids, large-scale structure, and topology
- Large, wide-field, and deep redshift surveys of the sky
Other areas
- Astronomical image processing, automated classification, machine learning
- Virtual observatory, and catalogue matching and handling
- Astrophysics and physics education
- Dark energy, and the standard model of cosmology
- Random number generation, statistics, statistical methods, game theory
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Office for Students PG Conversion Course Funding
Funder
Office for Students
Grant
£500,000.00
Started
1 September 2023
Status
Ongoing
Project
EMO-GP: Emission Mechanisms of Giant Pulses
Funder
STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant
£446,691.00
Started
1 April 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
Cosmic Chronometers in t he GAMA fields
Funder
The Royal Astronomical Society
Grant
£1,200.00
Started
23 June 2020
Status
Complete
Project
A ram pressure stripping toy model for jellyfish galaxies
Funder
The Royal Astronomical Society
Grant
£1,200.00
Started
1 July 2021
Status
Complete
Project
Additional scholarship funding for MSc in AI and Data Science
Funder
Office for Students
Grant
£60,000.00
Started
1 January 2023
Status
Complete
Project
Undergraduate Bursary: Star Formation Quenching Efficiency in Filaments of Galaxies
Funder
The Royal Astronomical Society
Grant
£1,200.00
Started
1 July 2018
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
iCASE PhD studentship with QinetiQ (via Newcastle University)
Funder
EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£98,000.00
Started
1 January 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
iCASE PhD Studentship with QinetiQ
Funder
EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£42,000.00
Started
1 January 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
Harnessing responsible use of technology for social and economic development in Burkina Faso: supporting community-led cultural heritage data governance through digital/AI literacy
Funder
British Academy
Grant
£124,722.00
Started
1 June 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
Experiencing human-wildlife conflict management through playful learning
Funder
British Ecological Society
Grant
£3,460.00
Started
1 December 2024
Status
Ongoing
Project
Astrophysics at the University of Hull
Funder
STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant
£704,947.00
Started
1 April 2018
Status
Complete
Project
STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2021
Funder
STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant
£49,315.00
Started
1 April 2021
Status
Complete
Project
National Data Strategy Pilot Funding
Funder
Office for Students
Grant
£32,692.00
Started
1 October 2021
Status
Complete
Project
Postgraduate conversion courses in AI and Data Science
Funder
Office for Students
Grant
£550,000.00
Started
1 April 2020
Status
Complete
Project
AKT: Predictive Manufacturing Optimization using Neural Networks (PROMINN)
Funder
Innovate UK
Grant
£29,358.00
Started
25 March 2024
Status
Complete
Project
Vital Knowledge Exchange Visits: Bolstering Ongoing Collaborative Responsible AI Projects at IIT-M and UoH
Funder
University of Hull
Grant
£7,500.00
Started
1 February 2024
Status
Complete
Postgraduate supervision
Observational astronomy and astrophysics, with a particular focus on galaxies, galaxy evolution, galaxy formation, stellar populations of galaxies, AGN, galaxy clusters, and large-scale structure of the Universe.
Completed PhDs
- Charlotte Wilkinson (2015-2019)
- Yjan Gordon (2015-2018)
- Amelia Fraser-McKelvie (2013-2017)
- Jacob Crossett (2012-2017)
- Dane Kleiner (2012-2017)
- Nic Bonne (2011-2015)
- David Palamara (2010-2015)
- Tim Dolley (2010-2015)
- Richard Beare (2010-2014)
- Brendan Griffen (2008-2009)
- Russell Jurek (2005-2009)
- Peter Firth (2005-2008)
- Isaac Roseboom (2004-2007)
Current PhD supervisions
- Mikkel Kristensen
- Mikkel Lindholmer
- Lawrence Bilton
- Oliver Bartlett