Dr Christopher Lovell
Summary
I am a computational astrophysicist working at the interface of theory and observations. My work utilises numerical simulations, novel statistical methods and artifical intelligence.
Biography
I joined the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï as a Dennis Sciama postdoctoral fellow in October 2022. Before this I completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Hertfordshire with Prof. James Geach, and a JSPS short-term fellowship at the University of Tokyo with Prof. Masami Ouchi.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Sussex in July 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Peter Thomas and Prof. Stephen Wilkins.
Research interests
My research interests span a broad range of topics in galaxy evolution, though I am particularly focused on early galaxy formation in the first billion years after the big bang. This nascent period in the Universe's history is now being probed in unprecedented detail by a number of state of the art observatories, such as the James Webb Space telescope.
I run and analyse large numerical cosmological simulations, creating mock observations of the real Universe to better understand the data, and understand the physical processes driving galaxy transformation. I also employ artifical intelligence techniques, using these to improve the performance of the simulations and reveal new insights.
Research outputs
2024
Almaini, O., Arellano-Córdova, K. Z., Barrufet, L., Begley, R., Carnall, A. C., Cimatti, A., Cullen, F., Donnan, C. T., Dunlop, J. S., Ellis, R. S., Grogin, N. A., Hamadouche, M. L., Illingworth, G. D.,
1 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 1, p. 325-348, 24p.
Anglés-Alcázar, D., Borrow, J., Davé, R., Gebhardt, M., Genel, S., Hernquist, L., Lovell, C. C., Marinacci, F., Nagai, D., Ni, Y. Y., Villaescusa-Navarro, F., Vogelsberger, M.
1 Apr 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529, 4, p. 4896-4913, 18p.
Davé, R., Donevski, D., Ghodsi, L., Lim, S., Lovell, C. C., Man, A. W., Narayanan, D.
1 Mar 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528, 3, p. 4393-4408, 16p.
Brammer, G., Cui, W., Davé, R., Iyer, K. G., Li, Q., Lovell, C. C., Lower, S., Marinacci, F., Narayanan, D., Sales, L. V., Stark, D. P., Torrey, P., Vogelsberger, M.
20 Jan 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 961, 1, 30p., 73
Greve, T. R., Irodotou, D., Lovell, C. C., Roper, W. J., Seeyave, L. T. C., Thomas, P. A., Vijayan, A. P., Wilkins, S. M.
1 Jan 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527, 3, p. 7337–7354
Caruana, J., Chworowsky, K., Conselice, C. J., Finkelstein, S. L., Irodotou, D., Lovell, C. C., Roper, W. J., Seeyave, L. T. C., Stanway, E. R., Vijayan, A. P., Vikaeus, A., Wilkins, S. M., Zackrisson, E.
1 Jan 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527, 3, p. 7965-7973, 9p.
Chen, Y., Law, D. R., Lovell, C. C., Maraston, C., Nanni, L., Neumann, J., Thomas, D., Trayford, J., Yan, R.
1 Jan 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527, 3, p. 6419-6438, 20p.
2023
Irodotou, D., Kuusisto, J. K., Lovell, C. C., Matharu, J., Roper, W. J., Seeyave, L. T. C., Thomas, P. A., Vijayan, A. P., Wilkins, S. M.
1 Dec 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526, 4, p. 6128–6144, 17p.
Bera, A., Burkhart, B., Dixon, K. L., Feldmann, R., Gelfand, J. D., Hassan, S., Huertas-Company, M., Jespersen, C. K., Lovell, C. C., Madau, P., Somerville, R. S., Starkenburg, T. K., Wu, J. F.
14 Nov 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 958, 1, 6p., L3
Conselice, C. J., Fortuni, F., Irodotou, D., Kuusisto, J. K., Lovell, C. C., Merlin, E., Roper, W., Santini, P., Seeyave, L., Thomas, P., Vijayan, A. P., Wilkins, S. M.
1 Nov 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525, 4, p. 5520–5539, 20p.