Summary
I am a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow based at Imperial College London and also a member of the LOFAR-EoR core team. I supervise two PhD students. My website can be found here.
Research Interests:
-- Cosmic Dawn and the First Stars
-- Epoch of reionization
-- 21-cm cosmology
-- Foreground removal
-- Semi-numeric simulations
-- Construction of data analysis pipelines for LOFAR / SKA
Awards:
2017 L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship, Highly Commended, £1000
2014 The Shell and Institute of Physics Award for the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year: winner
2013 UCL Chris Skinner Department of Physics and Astronomy Thesis Prize: winner
2013 Royal Astronomical Society Michael Penston Thesis Prize: runner up
2010 Durham University J.B.Chalmers Prize: winner for having amongst the three highest Physics degree marks in the year.
Career Path:
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Imperial College London
Oct 2020 - Present
RAS Research Fellowship
Imperial College London
Oct 2015 – Oct 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
University College London
Dec 2013 – Oct 2015
PhD
University College London
Oct 2010 – Dec 2013
Thesis title: Seeing the Light: Foreground Removal in the Dark and Dim Ages
MPhys (First)
Durham University
Oct 2006 – July 2010
Diversity/Policy:
I am a member of the Imperial JUNO committee. I am passionate about making academia a more pleasant environment for everyone. I am co-director of The 1752 Group, a campaign group tackling sexual misconduct in higher education.
Book:
I have written a popular science book on the subject of the first stars, published by Bloomsbury Sigma in November 2020. Order here.
Publications
Journals
Chen Z, Chapman E, Wolz L, et al., 2023, Detecting the H i power spectrum in the post-reionization Universe with SKA-Low, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:524, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:3724-3740
Hothi I, Chapman E, Pritchard JR, et al., 2021, Comparing foreground removal techniques for recovery of the LOFAR-EoR 21 cm power spectrum, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:500, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:2264-2277
Ghara R, Giri SK, Mellema G, et al., 2020, Constraining the intergalactic medium at z approximate to 9.1 using LOFAR Epoch of Reionization observations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:493, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:4728-4747
Mertens FG, Mevius M, Koopmans LVE, et al., 2020, Improved upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at z approximate to 9.1 from LOFAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:493, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:1662-1685
Patil AH, Yatawatta S, Koopmans LVE, et al., 2017, Upper limits on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power spectrum from one night with LOFAR, Astrophysical Journal, Vol:838, ISSN:1538-4357