I’m James Nightingale, an observational cosmologist and Royal Society Short Industry Fellow at Durham University.

My cosmology research focuses on strong gravitational lensing, in particular devising new ways to use this phenomenon to study dark matter and the distant Universe. I’m the lead developer of PyAutoLens, open source software for analysing strong lenses, which you can read more about here.

I am an advocate for cross-disciplinary research and am collaborating with healthcare researchers on applying the statistical techniques we use to study cosmology to improve cancer treatments. This uses the statistics software PyAutoFit that lead development of. You can read more about my collaboration with cancer researchers here.

I’m also a member of the Euclid consortium, where I develop techniques to correct radiation damage to the VIS instruments CCD’s. This will enable the shapes of tens of millions of galaxies to be measured accurately so that we can map out the mass distribution of the entire Universe. I discuss this research in more detail here.

Education

I completed my PhD at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr. Simon Dye, where I developed the foundations of PyAutoLens.

Links:

CV: https://jamesnightingale.net/cv/

Publications: https://jamesnightingale.net/publications/

Github: https://github.com/Jammy2211

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8987-7401