Dr Jonathan Pritchard
j.pritchard@ null imperial.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
For more information on my research and teaching, please take a look at my more extensive Imperial website
My research deals with trying to understand cosmology and astrophysics during the first billion years of the Universe. I'm especially interested in understanding the astrophysics of the 21 cm line of hydrogen with a view to making predictions for the upcoming generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as LOFAR, MWA and SKA. These observations have enormous potential to tell us about the first stars and galaxies and the evolution of structures in the early Universe. Beyond that my interests are broad ranging from ways of probing neutrino masses, to the physics of inflation, to galaxy formation.
Before coming to Imperial, I was a Hubble-ITC fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics where I worked on topics of reionization and the 21 cm line with Avi Loeb and others. My graduate work was done at Caltech with my advisor Marc Kamionkowski and with Steve Furlanetto. Before that I was an undergraduate at Cambridge in the UK.
Curriculum Vitae: pdf