June 2010-2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

2001-2009: Postdoctoral research Fellow at the Open University

Research areas:

• X-ray surveys of nearby spiral galaxies
• A new method for identifying black holes in X-ray binaries
• A new breed of black hole X-ray binary that may help explain the mysterious ultraluminous X-ray sources

 

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1997-2001: PhD Student at the University of Birmingham with Dr M.J. Church

My doctoral thesis is titled "Spectral evolution during dipping and flaring of low mass X-ray binaries",  and is comprised of the following work:

• Spectral evolution during flaring for the low mass X-ray binaries Sco X-1 and 4U 1624-490
• Evolution of the ~edge on  X-ray binary X1323-619 during dipping
  
• The phase distribution of dips in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1
  

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Current CV

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

E-mail: robin@robinbarnard.com