Phil Bull
Reader In Cosmology at University of the Western Cape
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Bull is a Reader in Cosmology with 17 years of experience blending theoretical and observational approaches to map the Universe’s large-scale structure using optical and radio surveys. Based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and holding a DPhil from Oxford, he leads ERC-funded research and has held research and teaching roles across the UK, Norway, the US, and South Africa. His work spans instrument-facing survey analysis to theoretical interpretation, bridging data science education as a former director of a Physics with Data Science program. Comfortable moving between academia and international collaborations, he brings rare hands-on expertise in both telescope survey pipelines and cosmological theory.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil (PhD), Astrophysics, DPhil (PhD), Astrophysics at University of OxfordMPhys, Physics with Astrophysics, MPhys, Physics with Astrophysics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (34)
data-formats10
random-walk10
cosmology10
approximate10
routines10
spectrum10
density-estimation10
gnome10
binning9
simulation9
splits9
astrophysics9
delay8
statistical-tests8
radio-astronomy8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RHINO-Experiment/rhino-sim
Jan 2023 - Jun 2026
Simulation pipeline for the RHINO 21cm global signal experiment
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
philbull/RadioFisher
Jan 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:135 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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