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
Chapman E, 2022, Between the frontier and the abyss, Physics World, Vol:35, ISSN:0953-8585, Pages:42-43i
Chapman E, 2022, First light: switching on stars at the dawn of time, Contemporary Physics, Vol:63, ISSN:0010-7514, Pages:15-33
Mevius M, Mertens F, Koopmans LVE, et al. , 2022, A numerical study of 21-cm signal suppression and noise increase in direction-dependent calibration of LOFAR data, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:509, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:3693-3702
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