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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Matthew Docherty - Thermodynamic diagnostic of quiet sun filament using IRIS2 inversion code
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science
  • Solar system science

Reconstructing a model atmosphere from observations opens up an exciting new medium for solar chromospheric analysis. Despite numerous publications on other solar phenomena, a distinct lack of such analysis has been focused on solar filaments. As…

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Matthew Lang - Data Assimilation in the Solar Wind
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Data Science
  • Geophysics
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science

In this study, we use the HUXt solar wind speed model to develop a variational DA scheme. This scheme enables solar-wind observations far from the Sun, such as at 1 AU, to update and improve the inner boundary conditions of the solar wind model (…

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Matthew Mould - Runaway spins in binary black holes
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

Binary black holes inspiral and eventually merge due to the emission of gravitational waves. Black holes also rotate, and in binaries the two black hole spins interact with each other and their orbit in a very complex way. But if the spins point…

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Matthew Read - CaSSIS: The European Space Agency's flagship imager of the Martian surface
Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astrophysics
  • Planetary Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) is a surface imager aboard the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which was launched to Mars in March 2016. CaSSIS acquires high resolution images (4.6m/pixel) of the…

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Matus Rybak - Full of Orions? Dissecting the extreme star-formation in the early Universe.
Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Will a newborn star feel a difference between being born in Orion today, and in a massive, dusty galaxy 10 billion years ago? Forming stars at rates 100x higher than any present-day galaxy, the dust-enshrouded, sub-mm bright galaxies (SMGs)…

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Maurane Gisiger - The Making of the Antikythera Mechanism
Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Science Communication
  • Public Engagement and Outreach
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

As part of the UCL Natural Sciences Innovation Lab, our interdisciplinary project titled “The Making of the Antikythera Mechanism” aimed at producing a replica of the said Antikythera Mechanism and a video series describing the object.
The…

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Maxime Deckers - Constraining the Explosion Mechanisms of Type Ia Supernovae
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrophysics

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia, the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs) are used to determine distances in the universe. With the current tension in the H0 constant it is imperative that we eliminate all potential sources of error, one of which…

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Mayur R. Bakrania - Using dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques to classify space plasma regimes
Student (postgraduate)
  • Data Science
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Solar system science
  • Space Science and Instrumentation

Collisionless space plasma environments are characterised by distinct particle populations that typically do not mix. Although moments of their velocity distribution functions help in distinguishing different plasma regimes, the distribution…

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Michaela K. Mooney - Evaluating Auroral Forecasts Against Satellite Observations
Student (postgraduate)
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial

During periods of high geomagnetic activity, particles precipitating into the atmosphere can cause auroral emission producing amazing displays across the sky. However, auroral emission can also affect long-range radio communications and the…

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Michele De Leo - A close up on galaxies' infighting
Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy

The Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) constitute two of the most fascinating objects of our Local Group of galaxies. Due to their proximity to us and to their turbulent interaction history they provide natural laboratories to…

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