The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

Matthew Bailes

Swinburne

Principal investigator

Ryan Shannon

Swinburne

Technical lead

Matt Miles

Vanderbilt

Gravitational waves, pulsars, noise processes, pulsar timing

Aditya Parthasarathy

ASTRON

Precision Pulsar Timing, Noise modelling, Ionised ISM, GW Astrophysics

Alberto Vecchio

Birmingham

Gravitational wave searches and astrophysics of massive black holes

Alessandro Corongiu

INAF

Amanda Weltman

Cape Town

Andrea Possenti

INAF

Neutron stars in X-rays and radio, pulsar searches, timing, relativistic binaries

Atharva Kulkarni

Swinburne

Atiqur Rahman

Cape Town

Aurélien Chalumeau

ASTRON

Gravitational Wave Data Analysis / Effects from the ionized ISM/IPM on pulsar timing

Beatrice Moreschi

Milan-Biccoca

Continuous gravitational waves searches, single pulsar noise analysis

Caterina Tiburzi

INAF

Christo Venter

North-West

Pulsar theory, multi-band light curves & broadband spectra of pulsar wind nebulae, spider binary systems, populations of pulsars in globular clusters.

Daniel Reardon

Swinburne

Pulsar timing, gravitational waves, interstellar scintillation

David J. Champion

MPIfR

Emma Carli

Swinburne

Pulsar timing database/data portal development and support

Eric Thrane

Monash

Gravitational-wave astrophysics, statistics

Francesco Iraci

INAF

Gilles Theureau

INSU

Pulsar timing, individual pulsar noise models, astrophysical stochastic GW background

Golam Shaifullah

Milan-Biccoca

Gosia Curylo

Monash

Pulsar timing, gravitational waves, supermassive black holes

Hannah Middleton

Birmingham

Stochastic gravitational wave background, massive black hole binaries

Hendrik Combrinck

Swinburne

Pulsar timing, Fast radio bursts (FRB), MeerKAT data

Huanchen Hu

MPIfR

Wideband timing, timing analysis, simulations

Jaikhomba Singha

Cape Town

Detection of GWs, Red noise models, Pulsar Timing

Kathrin Grunthal

MPIfR

GWB Anisotropy, Single source GW searches

Marisa Geyer

U. Cape Town

Alternative GW polarisation, Relativistic binaries, NS masses. Chair: African Pulsar Timing

Michael Kramer

MPIfR

Gravitational physics, Gravitational Waves, Neutron stars, pulsars

Mike Keith

Manchester

Pulsar Timing & Noise Modelling

Paul Brook

Birmingham

Gravitational wave searches

Pratyasha Gitika

Swinburne

Search and characterisation of nanohertz frequency gravitational waves, optimising the MeerKAT pulsar timing array

Prerna Rana

Cape Town

Ramesh Bhat

Curtin

Rowina Nathan

Monash

Gravitational-wave background, mapping, profile domain timing, science communication

Saurav Mishra

Swinburne

Pulsars, Pulsar Timing Array, Gravitational Waves

Scott Ransom

NRAO

Sparrow Roch

Swinburne

Surajit Kalita

Cape Town

Valentina Di Marco

Monash

Gravitational waves detection, noise processes and misspecification, pulsar timing data analysis and statistical methods

Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan

MPIfR

Willem van Straten

Manly Astrophysics