Lucy Cavendish Research Fellow has lead investigator programme accepted on the JWST
A fantastic achievement for Dr Suhail Dhawan, whose research focuses on supernovae to understand how fast the universe is expanding.
Watch Lucy Research Fellow Dr Suhail Dhawan discussing explosions in the universe.in this his fascinating #LivefromLucy and Anna Bidder series virtual talk.
This talk discussed some of the brightest explosions in the universe, that we can see when the universe was younger than half its current age. Dr Suhail Dhawan also talked about his work on measuring the expansion rate of the universe using these explosions.
About the Speaker
Dr Suhail Dhawan completed his undergraduate studies at Delhi University and a masters at UCL. His PhD was at the European Southern Observatory in Garching bei Munchen, and his degree from the Technical University Munich. Before joining the IoA Cambridge, Dr Dhawan was a postdoc at the Oskar Klein Center in Stockholm. Apart from astronomical surveys and cosmology, Dr Dhawan is passionate about animal welfare activism, trying out stand up comedy and roasting artisanal coffee.
