To be confirmed

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 12th December 2019 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: swmcmeet

Details to follow.

Speaker: Heloise Stevance

Originally born and raised in France, I moved to the UK to study Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield. After working as a support astronomer at the Isaac Newton Group in La Palma for a year, I obtained my Masters of Physics in 2015. I subsequently started a PhD studying the 3D shape of Core Collapse Supernovae, and earned my title in Spring 2019. In July of that year, I joined the University of Auckland as a Research Fellow to research the evolution of massive stars to better understand how they die and produce Supernovae and Kilonovae. In 2021 I was honoured to receive the title of Beatrice Tinsley Lecturer by the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, which led to a national tour of Public Lectures to introduce the public to Black-Hole and Neutron Star mergers. Finally in 2023 I received a Schmidt A.I. in Science Fellowship from the University of Oxford where I am currently developing A.I. models for international sky surveys that can detect thousands of supernovae and other stellar explosions every year.