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Personal profile
Biography
I'm an Associate Professor in Statistical Data Science at Macquarie University, leading an Astrostatistics Research Group. I research extrasolar planets - planets around other stars - and focus on developing and applying new data science approaches for detecting and characterizing them.
At the moment, I'm most excited about using using radio astronomy to study planets' magnetic interactions with their host stars; and applying differentiable models of physical optics to hardware design and data analysis for exoplanet direct imaging. Recently I have been working on a survey of naked-eye stars in Kepler, K2, and TESS, to search for pulsating stars and transiting planets.
Education/Academic qualification
Astrophysics, DPhil, University of Oxford
Award Date: 12 May 2018
Astrophysics, MSc, University of Sydney
Award Date: 25 Sept 2015
Physics, BSc (Adv) (Hons), University of Sydney
Award Date: 14 Jun 2013
External positions
Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
1 Feb 2025 → …
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A General, differentiable transit model for ellipsoidal occulters: derivation, application, and forecast of planetary oblateness and obliquity constraints with JWST
Dholakia, S., Dholakia, S. & Pope, B. J. S., 10 Jul 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 987, 2, p. 1-12 12 p., 150.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Carbon-rich dust injected into the interstellar medium by galactic WC binaries survives for hundreds of years
Richardson, N. D., Henson, M., Lieb, E. P., Kehl, C., Lau, R. M., Williams, P. M., Corcoran, M. F., Callingham, J. R., Chené, A.-N., Gull, T. R., Hamaguchi, K., Han, Y., Hankins, M. J., Hill, G. M., Hoffman, J. L., Mackey, J., Moffat, A. F. J., Pope, B. J. S., Pradhan, P. & Russell, C. M. P. & 6 others, , 10 Jul 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 987, 2, p. 1-10 10 p., 160.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Catching the wisps: Stellar mass-loss limits from low-frequency radio observations
Bloot, S., Vedantham, H. K., Kavanagh, R. D., Callingham, J. R. & Pope, B. J. S., 1 Mar 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695, p. 1-8 8 p., A176.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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JWST 1.5 μm and 4.8 μm Photometry of Y Dwarfs
Albert, L., Leggett, S. K., Calissendorff, P., Vandal, T., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Bardalez Gagliuffi, D. C., De Furio, M., Meyer, M., Beichman, C. A., Burgasser, A. J., Cushing, M. C., Faherty, J. K., Fontanive, C., Gelino, C. R., Gizis, J. E., Greenbaum, A. Z., Martinache, F., N’Diaye, M., Pope, B. J. S. & Roellig, T. L. & 3 others, , 3 Mar 2025, In: Astronomical Journal. 169, 3, p. 1-10 10 p., 163.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The James Webb Interferometer: space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 μm
Blakely, D., Johnstone, D., Cugno, G., Sivaramakrishnan, A., Tuthill, P., Dong, R., Pope, B. J. S., Albert, L., Charles, M., Cooper, R. A., De Furio, M., Desdoigts, L., Doyon, R., Francis, L., Greenbaum, A. Z., Lafreniére, D., Lloyd, J. P., Meyer, M. R., Pueyo, L. & Ray, S. & 5 others, , 3 Mar 2025, In: Astronomical Journal. 169, 3, p. 1-16 16 p., 137.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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