Laura Watson

Postgraduate Student

l.watson09@ null imperial.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 7907
Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Room 1109, Level 11
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK

I am a first year cosmology postgraduate student working with Andrew Jaffe. The aim of my PhD is to investigate CMB polarisation and the implications for topology: the recently launched Planck satellite will measure the polarisation of the CMB over the next year or so. Currently, I am working on applying Bayesian statistics to the problem of determining the source of cosmic rays.

 

Background:

I completed a Master in Science (MSci) degree in Astrophysics at University College London in 2009.