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Matt Nicholl
Queen's University Belfast, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Employment
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Queen's University Belfast Reader in Astrophysics2023 - Present
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University of Birmingham Lecturer2019 - 2023
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The University of Edinburgh Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow2018 - 2019
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Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow2015 - 2018
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Education
- 2012 - 2015
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Oxford University MPhys2008 - 2012
Projects & Funding
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The host galaxies of tidal disruption events Science and Technology Facilities Council2022 - 2026
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KilonovaRank: gravitational wave counterparts and exotic transients with next-generation surveys European Research Council2021 - 2026
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An upgrade to the mount of the ASTEP telescope Science and Technology Facilities Council2021 - 2021
Publications (260)
- Can tidal disruption event models reliably measure black hole masses? Save
- Attention-based preprocessing framework for improving rare transient classification Save
- ATLAS100 – I. A volume-limited sample of supernovae and related transients within 100 Mpc Save
- The wandering supermassive black hole powering the off-nuclear tidal disruption event AT2024tvd Save
- AT2024lhc and AT2024kmq in the landscape of featureless tidal disruption events Save
- SN 2023taz: implications for the UV diversity of superluminous supernovae Save
- Identifying transient hosts in LSST’s deep drilling fields with galaxy catalogs Save
- The multiwavelength context of delayed radio emission in tidal disruption events: evidence for accretion-driven outflows Save
- MALLORN: many artificial LSST light curves based on observations of real nuclear transients Save
- SN 2021aaev: a hydrogen-rich superluminous supernova with early flash and long-lived circumstellar interaction in an unusual host environment Save
- Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae in the nebular phase: spectral diversity due to ejecta ionization as a probe of the power source Save
- EP241217a: a likely type II GRB with an achromatic bump at z = 4.59 Save
- The impact of ultraviolet suppression on the rates and properties of strongly lensed Type IIn supernovae detected by LSST Save
- Revisiting the unification of tidal disruption events with polarimetry Save
- Superluminous supernovae: diverse rise times explain diverse spectra Save
- MUSE IFU observations of galaxies hosting of Tidal Disruption Events Save
- A luminous and hot infrared through X-Ray transient at a 5 kpc offset from a dwarf galaxy Save
- Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event Save
- Pan-STARRS follow-up of the gravitational-wave event S250818k and the light curve of SN2025ulz Save
- Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with preexplosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations Save