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“The Cavendish Women in Physics have made unparalleled contributions to the Cavendish Laboratory’s extraordinary history of discovery and innovation in Physics and continue to do so.”

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These fields encompass a variety of research groups, each with its own scientific aims and ambitions but united by two common goals:

  • the search for a fundamental understanding of the Universe and the laws which govern it
  • seeking new ways to apply the laws of nature.

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Contact Details

Email address:
dfb@mrao.cam.ac.uk

Astrophysics Group
Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
Cavendish Laboratory
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0HE

+44 (0)1223 337302

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Current members

Head of research group

Postdoctoral research associates

  • Dr Qingyang Dong
  • Dr Shubham Kulkarni

PhD students (alphabetically within year group)

  • Charles Kelly
  • Haoqian Zhou
  • Rian Howe
  • Finlay Gerrand
  • Yulin Cai
  • Xiao Hang
  • Zhenxiang Tang
  • Minglei Zhang
  • Raf Kliber
  • Mingyu Shang

Scientific Writer

  • Dr Mayank Shreshtha

Personal Assistant to Prof Cole

  • Carol Farmer

Former members

  • Leon Devereux (MPhil 2017–2018, PhD 2018–2023, postdoc 2026)
  • Finlay Gerrand (research assistant 2026)
  • Rian Howe (research assistant 2026)
  • Shubham Kulkarni (research assistant 2026)
  • Guan-Lin Liu (postdoc 2026)
  • Madhulika Mazumder (postdoc 2026)
  • Elena Patyukova (postdoc 2026)
  • Carlos Antonio Lugo Vélez (postdoc 2026)
  • Dingyun (Jack) Huang (PhD 2021–2025, postdoc 2025–2026)
  • Qingyang Dong (MPhil, 2019-2020, PhD 2020–2025)
  • Son Gyo Jung (PhD 2019–2022 & 2023–2025)
  • Cordie Cavill (Part-time MPhil 2023–2025)
  • Odysseas Sierepeklis (MPhil 2019-2020, PhD 2020–2024)
  • Shiyun Liu (MPhil, 2023–2024)
  • Alan Yahya (MPhil, 2023–2024)
  • Laurence Lam (MPhil, 2023–2024)
  • Pankaj Kumar (MPhil, PhD, 2019–2024)
  • Zongqian Li (MPhil, 2022–2023)
  • Ulrich Mayer (Scientific Writer 2013–2023)
  • Batuhan Yildirim (PhD 2018–2023)
  • Damian Wilary (PhD 2019–2023)
  • Shu Huang (PhD 2018–2023)
  • Taketomo Isazawa (PhD 2018–2023, including one-year internship)
  • Miao Zhu (PhD 2017–2022)
  • Jiuyang Zhao (PhD 2018–2022)
  • Heejung Chung (MPhil 2021–2022)
  • Jacob Florian (MPhil 2021–2022)
  • Apoorv Jain (PhD 2017–2022)
  • Charles Kelly (MPhil, 2020–2021)
  • Mostafa Saad Ali Ebied (PhD exchange student 2018–2020)
  • Edward Beard (PhD 2016–2020)
  • Callum Court (MPhil, PhD 2016–2020)
  • Samila McDonald (Postdoc 2019–2020)
  • Padraic Flanagan (MPhil 2019–2020)
  • Ben Koby (MPhil 2019–2020)
  • Hao (Henry) Chen (PhD 2015–2020)
  • Karim Mukaddem (PhD 2015–2019)
  • Ke Deng (PhD 2015–2019)
  • Christopher Ashcroft (PhD 2013–2019)
  • Chris Cooper (MPhil 2017–2018)
  • Jose D J Velazquez-Garcia (PhD 2014–2017)
  • Yun Gong (PhD 2013–2017)
  • Alisha Cramer (PhD 2013–2017)
  • Zhenqing Yang (Postdoc 2016–2017)
  • Giulio Pepe (PhD 2012–2016)
  • Jonathan McCree-Grey (PhD 2012–2016)
  • Scott McKechnie (PhD 2011–2015)
  • Xiaogang (Larry) Liu (PhD 2011–2014)
  • Zhang Lei (PhD 2011–2014)
  • Paul Waddell (Postdoc 2011–2014)
  • Matthew Swain (PhD student, 2011–2015)
  • Sven Sylvester (PhD 2010–2013)
  • Alasdair Edge (Scientific Writer 2010–2013)
  • Tze-Chia Lin (PhD 2009–2012)
  • Martin Blood-Forsythe (MPhil 2010–2011)
  • Thierry d’Almeida (postdoc 2008–2010)
  • Dan Hickstein (MPhil 2007–2008)
  • Andrew Higginbotham (MPhil 2009–2010)
  • Kian Sing Low (PhD 2008–2012, postdoc 2012–2013)
  • Tyler Merz (MPhil 2011–2012)
  • Anthony Phillips (PhD 2007–2010)
  • Nicholas Weng (PhD 2005–2009)