Stuart Harper

Stuart Harper

Astrophysicist at JBCA

Stuart Harper

I’m an astrophysicist at the Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics studying the physics of the interstellar medium.

Research

  • LiteBIRD - The next-generation space-based polarised CMB mission.
  • C-BASS survey — All-sky Stokes IQU mapping of the sky at 5GHz.
  • COMAP Galactic plane survey — On-going survey at 30GHz and 5 arcminute resolution of our Galaxy.
  • Spinning dust emission — A poorly understood dust component of the ISM.
  • Line intensity mapping — Mapping the tomography of the Universe.
  • Radio Frequency Interference — From satellites and terrestial sources.

See the full list on the publications page.

About me

I’m currently a senior post-doctoral researcher at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Manchester, UK. I’ve been fortunate to be based at Manchester as PDRA for many years and in that time have worked on a dozen different projects, co-supervised 4 PhD students and 12 masters student projects, and published almost 50 peer reviewed scientific articles. During my academic career I have worked on all areas of radio astronomy projects from low-level instrument commissioning, to data reduction pipelines, to final scientific interpretation.

View my CV for more details.

Highlights

  • Latest paper: Spinning dust emission in λ-Orionis Dark Clouds (arXiv)