Daniel Mortimer Email & Phone Number

Germany

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow primarily focused on developing the beam combination scheme for the planned BIFROST instrument. BIFROST will combine the light from the four, 8m telescopes at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. I am also involved in the analysis of interferometric data on young stellar objects as well as continuing my.

I am currently serving as the president of the non-profit International Workshop for Astronomy (IWA). IWA has almost 5 decades of experience running the International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC), an annual summer camp designed to promote astronomy and international collaboration.

Germany

This role required me to work in an international team of scientists tasked with the organisation and running of the summer camp. here I taught for four hours a day for three weeks, leading eight participants through four projects simultaneously. 2015 - projects were designed around the theme of data reduction from professional observatories, analysing.

This role involves primarily replying to large volumes of emails to provide information and assistance where needed to applicants of the International Astronomical Youth Camp. This role also includes organising and managing the IAYCs grant program, the application system and being involved in updating organisational policies and procedures where needed.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I conducted research for my PhD into the design and development of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, specifically, the development of the first generation near-infrared science beam combining instrument (FOURIER) from the conceptual design phase to laboratory testing.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• The Cavendish graduate student conference is an annual event where all graduate students in the laboratory are invited to present their work to their peers. This one-day conference consists of talks, poster sessions, a.
• Selecting and inviting the keynote speaker (Chris Lintott)
• Reviewing and selecting applications for talks and posters
• Managing the event on the day
• Organising catering
• Collecting feedback via surveys after the event

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Laboratory demonstrator for the second year undergraduate natural science Laboratories. This role involves explaining physics concepts, troubleshooting nonfunctioning experiments, ensuring the students are on task and grading of the student's lab notes. Michaelmas term - Electronic systems for experimentation: In this lab, the students built many circuits.

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Supervising (tutoring) first-year undergraduate Physics students in groups of two. This role required me to assign weekly problems to complement topics covered in the student's lectures, marking the submitted solutions and hosting weekly sessions with the students to discuss that week’s assigned problems and clarify any issues with their understanding of.

Leeds, United Kingdom

I initiated the creation and was the two-time president of the Leeds University Union astronomical society. The creation required my co-founders and me to prepare a pitch to convince the union to allow us to form a society. During my presidency I was heavily involved in helping the society grow from nothing to having over 50 paying members, successfully.

Vienna

Here I spent time working independently on what eventually led to the development of a galactic dynamics simulation package written in python by myself which is able to take on sky coordinates and proper motions, convert them into a galactocentric frame and numerically integrate over a period of time, returning the positions of the objects at any given.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Master Of Physics With Astrophysics (International) (Honours), Physics, First Class

Exchange Year, Physics

Exchange year as part of my integrated Masters at the University of Leeds.