Curriculum Vitae
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August 2024 – March 2025 Research Fellow
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Line Manager: Prof. Omar Almaini
Duties include independent research in Extragalactic Astrophysics, analysing spectroscopic data from large surveys.
October 2020 – July 2024 Ph.D Astrophysics
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Supervisors: Prof. Omar Almaini, Prof. Michael Merrifield, Dr. David Maltby
Thesis Title: Not Dead Yet: High Redshift Recently Quenched Galaxies As Probes Of Galaxy Evolution
October 2016 – June 2020 MSci Natural Sciences (First Class with Honours)
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Master’s Thesis: Caesium vapour cells for optical magnetometry
Proficiency in PYTHON 3, LATEX, WINDOWS (POWERPOINT, EXCEL, WORD), TOPCAT, PPXF and experience with HTML, MATLAB, FLASK
Substantial experience handling extensive data sets (UKIDSS UDS DR11, UDSz, JWST EXCELS)
Extensive experience with UV-optical spectral analysis of high-z galaxies, including:
Stacking analysis of different galaxy populations
Spectral fitting
Fitting absorption features to study outflow signatures
Substantial experience of problem solving, both within a team and individually
A high-level of communication and presentation skills, including:
Poster and oral presentations
Science outreach (ages 4-18)
Extensive leadership experience, including managing the University of Nottingham’s portable planetarium outreach project
March 2022 Support of Msc student
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
January 2021 - October 2022 Coursework marking (Undergraduate Physics)
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
As of January 2025, I have two first-author publications in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS: impact factor 4.8). A fully up to date publication list can always be found here.
1. Taylor et al., 2024, MNRAS, 535, 1684, High-velocity outflows persist up to 1 Gyr after a starburst in recently-quenched galaxies at z > 1.
2. Taylor et al., 2023, MNRAS, 522, 297, The role of mass and environment in the build-up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon.
June 2022 – June 2024 Teach the Teachers programme co-manager
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
October 2021 – June 2024 Widening Participation Astronomy lead
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
October 2021 – June 2024 School of Physics and Astronomy Outreach Committee member
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
May 2020 – June 2024 The Inflativerse planetarium manager
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
September 2024 Science Highlight talk for Galaxies At Crossroads: Outflows And IMF In The VLT/ELT/ALMA/JWST Era
Brno, Czechia
Title: Not dead yet: high-velocity outflows seen in old z > 1 recently quenched galaxies
September 2022 Contributed talk for The 4th Philip Wetton Workshop: Bridging observations and simulations
Christ Church College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Title: The role of mass and environment in the build up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon
June 2024 Invited talk for University of St Andrews Journal Club
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Title: The role of mass, environment and outflows in quenching since cosmic noon
October 2023 Invited talk for STScI Galaxies and AGN journal club
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MA, USA
Title: The role of mass and environment in the build-up of the quenched galaxy population since cosmic noon
September 2024 Galaxies at Crossroads: Outflows and IMF in the VLT/ELT/ALMA/JWST Era (science highlight talk)
Brno, Czechia
September 2023 A journey through galactic environments (poster)
Porto Ercole, Italy
September 2022 The 4th Philip Wetton Workshop: Bridging observations and simulations (contributed talk)
Christ Church College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
September 2022 The epoch of Galaxy Quenching
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
May 2022 IAA – Severo Ochoa Advanced School of Galaxy Evolution (poster)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain
January 2021 STFC 2020 Introductory Astronomy School (poster)
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