Vanessa McBride

Employment

• International Science Council Science Director
  2023 - Present
• South African Astronomical Observatory Head of Research
  2020 - 2023
• University of Cape Town Adjunct associate professor
  2019 - Present
• Office of Astronomy for Development Deputy Director
  2017 - 2023
• University of Cape Town Senior Lecturer/Lecturer
  2011 - 2016

Education

• University of Southampton PhD
  2003 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (104)

• Plenary: Data Stewardship for AI Across Global Science: Standards and Disparities
  Zenodo 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22814975
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• AI for Science - CODATA Convened Session
  Zenodo 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18116771
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• A historic XXXII IAU General Assembly for a lasting African legacy
  Nature Astronomy 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02447-w
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• A Radio Flare in the Long-lived Afterglow of the Distant Short GRB 210726A: Energy Injection or a Reverse Shock from Shell Collisions?
  The Astrophysical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad49ab
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• 4U 1210-64: a new member of the rare intermediate-mass X-ray binary subclass
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3445
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• The 2019 outburst of AMXP SAX J1808.4-3658 and radio follow up of MAXI J0911-655 and XTE J1701-462
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad649
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• Gamma-Ray Eclipses and Orbital Modulation Transitions in the Candidate Redback 4FGL J1702.7-5655
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6fe2
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• SXP 15.6 - an accreting pulsar close to spin equilibrium?
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1208
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• 21 new long-term variables in the GX 339-4 field: two years of MeerKAT monitoring
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac756
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• Multifrequency observations of SGR J1935+2154
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab749
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• GW190814 follow-up with the optical telescope MeerLICHT
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2021 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040231
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• MeerCRAB: MeerLICHT classification of real and bogus transients using deep learning
  Experimental Astronomy 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09757-1
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• Anomalous gas in ESO 149-G003: a MeerKAT-16 view
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3770
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• MeerKAT HI commissioning observations of MHONGOOSE galaxy ESO 302-G014
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2020 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038894
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• A MeerKAT survey of nearby nova-like cataclysmic variables
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1747
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• Optical and X-ray study of the peculiar high-mass X-ray binary XMMU J010331.7-730144
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1739
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• The radio pulsar population of the Small Magellanic Cloud
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa662
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• Imbalance learning for variable star classification
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa642
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• A spectroscopic, photometric, polarimetric, and radio study of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis: the first simultaneous SALT and MeerKAT observations
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa080
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• An extremely powerful long-lived superluminal ejection from the black hole MAXI J1820+070
  Nature Astronomy 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-1023-5
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