Group Leader

Jason Hessels

University of Amsterdam / ASTRON

Expert on pulsars, Fast Radio Bursts, and transient sources in general.

Staff

Cees Bassa

ASTRON

Working with the LOFAR radio telescope and volunteer at the Dwingeloo radio telescope.

Benito Marcote

JIVE

Studies all kind of transient sources with low-frequency radio interferometers and very long baselien interferometry networks.

Zsolt Paragi

JIVE

Chair of the program comittee of the European VLBI Network and head of the EVN User Support.

PostDoc

Shivani Bhandari

ASTRON / JIVE

Veni Fellow. Studies Fast Radio Bursts with the EVN and LOFAR.

Pragya Chawla

University of Amsterdam

Searches for Fast Radio Bursts at low radio frequencies.

Dany Vohl

University of Amsterdam / ASTRON

Discovering long-term transient sources at low radio frequencies with LOFAR.

PhD students

Akshatha Gopinath

University of Amsterdam

Studing the burst properties of Fast Radio Bursts at low frequencies with LOFAR.

Dante Hewitt

University of Amsterdam

Localizing Fast Radio Bursts at high angular resolution and understanding the burst emission through observations with the Nancay telescope.

Omar Ould-Boukattine

University of Amsterdam

High-cadence monitoring of repeating Fast Radio Bursts with small EVN dishes.

Mark Snelders

ASTRON / University of Amsterdam

Finding and characterizing Fast Radio bursts at the highest possible time resolutions.

Master & Bachelor Students

Ny Ando

University of Amsterdam

Developing a pipeline to look for single pulses from the Nançay Radio Telescope

Mariska Hoogkamer

University of Amsterdam

Characterising fluctuations in FRB temporal profiles and comparing with magnetar X-ray bursts

David Konijn

University of Amsterdam

Searching for FRBs towards nearby starburst galaxies

Dirk Kuiper

University of Amsterdam

Classifying FRBs with machine learning

Ninisha Manaswini

University of Amsterdam

Searching for CHIME-detected FRBs in LOFAR-tied array all-sky survey archival data on the Dutch Supercomputer Snellius.

Teresa Matamoro

University of Amsterdam

Ruben van Ruiten

University of Amsterdam

Hugo Veldhuis

University of Amsterdam

Burst morphological clustering of FRBs from CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 and the Arecibo observations of FRB 20121102A.

Affiliated

Franz Kirsten

Chalmers University of Technology

Leading the PRECISE project on follow up of repeating Fast Radio Bursts with EVN dishes.

Former Members

Kenzie Nimmo

MIT

Focused on the study of Fast Radio Bursts at the highest angular and temporal resolution.