Kate Rowlands

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

01/2017 - present. Postdoctoral research fellow, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Galaxy evolution using the MaNGA survey.

08/2013 - 01/2017. Postdoctoral research fellow, University of St Andrews, UK. The origin of galaxy bimodality.

09/2009 - 07/2013. PhD at the University of Nottingham, UK: Dust in galaxies throughout cosmic time. Supervisors: Prof Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Dr Simon Dye, Dr Loretta Dunne and Dr Steve Maddox.

09/2008 - 06/2009. MPhys project at Cardiff University: Deep cosmological surveys using the PAH/silicate features. Supervisor: Dr Kate Isaak.

EDUCATION

2009-2013 Astronomy PhD student, University of Nottingham, UK

2005-2009 Mphys Astrophysics First Class Honours, Cardiff University, UK

AWARDED TELESCOPE TIME AS PI

Zombie galaxies in Herschel-ATLAS, JVLA L-band observations of HI gas and continuum, 21 hours, 2013

Origin and properties of dust in an early-type galaxy, optical IFU observations, VLT - MUSE Science Verification, 3 hours, 2014

Caught in the act: ALMA witnesses galaxy transformation, observations of CI(1-0), CO(4-3) and submillimeter continuum of 9 post-starburst galaxies, ALMA Cycle 4, 18.2 hours, 2016

Caught in the act: ALMA witnesses galaxy transformation, observations of CI(1-0), CO(4-3) and submillimeter continuum of 7 post-starburst galaxies, ALMA Cycle 5, 10.5 hours, 2017

22 successful telescope proposals as co-I, on NOEMA, ALMA, GBT, JVLA, JCMT, IRAM 30-m, Arecibo, VLT, AAT.

GRANTS AND PRIZES

ASDSS Early Career Travel Grant 2018

ALMA ambassador program (2018)

Grant from the University of St Andrews Research Staff Development Fund to attend "Presenting Your Research with Impact" communication masterclass (2015)

RAS grant to support a summer student project (2015)

RAS grant to support a summer student project (2014)

RAS grant to attend the IAU General Assembly, Beijing (2012)

IAU grant to attend the IAU General Assembly, Beijing (2012)

RAS grant to attend "Multiwavelength surveys: A Vintage Decade" in Hunter Valley, Australia (2012)

Nottingham Graduate School Travel Prize, to attend "Multiwavelength surveys: A Vintage Decade" in Hunter Valley, Australia (2012)

IAU grant to attend IAU Symposium 284: The spectral energy distribution of galaxies (2011)

TEACHING

Participant in the Johns Hopkins University Teaching Institute 2018

Organiser and lecturer at Johns Hopkins ALMA Community Day as NRAO ALMA Ambassador, March 2018

Demonstrator and organiser for Python Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, 2017, 2018

Summer student project supervisor of Xuanyi Wu (2017), a student at Tsinghua University, who worked on outflows in galaxies.

Transferable skills student project supervisor of John Weaver, (2015-2016). Worked on the origin of dust in galaxies.

Summer student project supervisor of Anna Oprandi (2015), a student at the University of Edinburgh, who worked on the SED fitting and origin of dust in submillimetre galaxies.

Summer student project supervisor of Sam Vaughan (2014), now a PhD student at Oxford, who worked on the molecular gas properties of a minor merger remnant.

Guest lecturer for AS4010 "Extragalactic Astronomy", (2013-2016)

GCSE and A-level Masterclass demonstrator, (2010-2013)

Demonstrating and marking for first year undergraduate laboratory (2009-2011)

SELECTED OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Glenrothes Science Festival, 2016

International year of light SHINE outreach events - hands on cosmology exhibits and talking about the MaNGA survey, 2015

Interconnect "Meet the Academics", talking to students about careers in academia, 2015

Talk at QuantumSoc St Andrews: "Seeing the stolen starlight: the dusty Universe", 2015

Talks at public events for the St Andrews planetarium, 2013-2015

Talks at schools and public events for "The Inflativerse", Nottingham's inflatable planetarium, 2011-2013

Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2012

Big Bang Fair 2011-2012, London, Nottingham, Birmingham

COLLABORATION MEMBERSHIP

Herschel-ATLAS

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA)

The JCMT dust and gas In Nearby Galaxies Legacy Exploration (JINGLE)

Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA)

The Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey (SPOGS)