Tessa Vernstrom has joined CASS, based in Perth, as a
Bolton Fellow.
Tessa specialises in the statistical study of the faint and or
distant extragalactic radio sky, from galaxies to the cosmic web. She
received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,
working with Douglas Scott and Jasper Wall on deep source counts. Over
the last three years she has been working as a postdoc with Bryan
Gaensler at the Dunlap Institute in Toronto, Canada. This involved work
searching for the synchrotron cosmic web using the
Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and
characterising polarization properties of high redshift galaxies. As a
Bolton Fellow she hopes to use new data from the MWA and ASKAP to
build on previous work of studying the faint sky and searching for
diffuse emission using new multifrequency techniques and new
algorithms like machine learning. The image above was taken while Tessa
was visiting the 64m
Sardinia Radio Telescope.
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