Early Career Poster Exhibition

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RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition 2020

With NAM cancelled this year, the RAS are hosting an online poster exhibition for early career researchers, professionals, and students from across astronomy and geophysics.

Here you’ll find over 200 posters spanning a wide range of topics from black holes to active galactic nuclei, to Mars missions and outreach and education.

Posters are searchable by their authors, and research field tags.

Please take your time to look at the submissions, and get in touch with the authors!

We encourage you to tweet about the exhibition using the hashtag #RASposter2020. Please note that any communications relating to the exhibition must adhere to RAS Code of Conduct, available here.

A senior team of astronomers and geophysicists are judging the submissions based on the quality of the content, communication and design. Winners of the competition will be announced back here in November 2020.

Thanks for visiting and please do show your support for the early career researchers by sharing their submissions, and asking questions!

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Julia E. Stawarz - Using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Examine Electric Fields in Turbulent Plasmas
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

Complex turbulent motions are observed in plasmas throughout the Universe and act to transfer energy from large-scale fluctuations to small-scale fluctuations, which can be more easily dissipated into the thermal energy of the particles. Electric…

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Julia Venturini - The nature of the Radius Valley: insights from formation models
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astrobiology
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmochemistry
  • Planetary Atmospheres

The existence of a Radius Valley in the Kepler size distribution stands as one of the most important observational constraints to understand the origin and composition of exoplanets with radii between that of Earth and Neptune. The goal of this…

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Julie Nekola Novakova - Beyond The Final Frontier: Science Fiction as A Tool of Astrobiology Outreach & Education
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)
  • Space Education (tertiary)

Science Fiction as A Tool of Astrobiology Outreach & Education' is a project team founded at the European Astrobiology Institute with the aim to teach and popularize science and critical thinking through the use of popular fiction. For…

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Kate Blackham - Modelling Type Ia supernovae with single white dwarf progenitors
Recent Graduate
  • Astrophysics

This project sought to find a Galactic birth rate for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with progenitors that are a white dwarf (WD) accreting mass from a companion non-WD. SNe Ia are used as ‘standard candles’ to measure intergalactic distances and…

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Katherine Rawlins - Physical conditions in high-redshift damped Lyman-alpha absorbers
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology

Intervening gas along the line-of-sight to a background quasar can be probed through absorption features seen in the quasar spectrum. Of all such absorbing clouds, damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs) have a very high content of neutral gas,…

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Katja Fahrion - Globular clusters as tracers of galaxy assembly
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Globular clusters (GCs) are dense, massive star clusters found in all massive galaxies and due to their old ages, they are often regarded as fossil records of galaxy assembly that inherit the chemodynamical properties of their birthplace. In the…

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Katrin Raynor-Evans - STEM Through Stamps
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Solar system science
  • Space Education (primary or secondary)
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Since the first Astronomy stamp was issued in 1887 in Brazil, the subject of Astronomy and that of space exploration has been commemorated on stamps all over the world. Small, bright in colour and educational, stamps are a fantastic way of…

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Kevin C. Cooke - Dying of the Light: Cold Quasars & TheShutdown of Galaxy Growth
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

To understand how massive galaxies came to be, we must understand how their star formation rich pasts are affected due to non-stellar processes such as the supermassive black holes in the hearts of galaxies. When a supermassive black hole…

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Kirsty May Butler - Neutral Outflows in Dusty High Redshift Galaxies
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The formation and evolution of galaxies is intrinsically linked to the cosmic web from which they are formed. Gas is accreted from the intergalactic medium, forming dusty gas clouds, stars and blackholes which in turn feed energy back into the…

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Koushik Sen - Black holes and where to find them: The curious case of missing stellar mass black holes
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

The observed number of black holes in a binary with a high mass Main Sequence companion is very small as compared to the observed number of Wolf Rayet stars in a similar binary configuration, whereas the latter is believed to be the progenitors…

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