ProfessorJonathan Pritchard
Visiting Professor
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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- Visiting ProfessorDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 7557 (Work)
- 1018C, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
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My academic journey began with an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge. I then moved out west to study for a PhD in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the California Institute of Technology. From there I migrated east as a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 2011, I joined the Physics department at Imperial College London as a lecturer in Astrostatistics. My research addresses the first billion years after the big bang, focussing on the period when the first generations of stars and galaxies formed. I'm particularly interested in the possibility of using new radio frequency observations with telescopes like LOFAR and the Square Kilometer Array to learn about this period.
My academic journey began with an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge. I then moved out west to study for a PhD in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the California Institute of Technology. From there I migrated east as a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 2011, I joined the Physics department at Imperial College London as a lecturer in Astrostatistics. My research addresses the first billion years after the big bang, focussing on the period when the first generations of stars and galaxies formed. I'm particularly interested in the possibility of using new radio frequency observations with telescopes like LOFAR and the Square Kilometer Array to learn about this period.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor in AstrostatisticsImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2024 - present
- Reader in AstrostatisticsImperial, United Kingdom1 Sep 2018 - 31 Aug 2024
- Senior Lecturer in AstrostatisticsImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2015 - 31 Aug 2018
- Lecturer in AstrostatisticsImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2011 - 31 Aug 2015
DEGREES
- PhD PhysicsCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States2002 - 2007
- MSciUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1998 - 2002
- PG Dip University Learning and TeachingImperial College London, London, United Kingdom2013 - 2014
- PG Cert University Learning and TeachingImperial College London, London, United Kingdom2012 - 2013
FACULTY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
POSITION NAME
- Visiting Professor