CV

Education

• Ph.D in Physics, University of Warwick, 2026 (expected)
• M.Phys. in Physics with Astrophysics, University of Exeter, 2022

Work experience

• 2023 - 2024: Student Support Astronomer
  • Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
  • Duties includes: Support and train visiting observers, change instrument configurations, independent observing.
  • Supervisors: Dr Yeisson Osorio & Dr Cecilia Fariña
• 2022 - 2023: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • University of Warwick
  • Duties included: Demonstrating lab experiments, observatory tours.

Skills

• Astronomical Observations
  • Experience with wide range of optical telescopes
  • Trained to observe with Green Bank Telescope
• Astronomical Data Reduction (Pyraf/iraf, CCDProc, CASA)
• Computing
  • Linux based/UNIX-like environments and HPC clusters
  • Use of version control systems (e.g git)
• Programming
  • Proficient in Python
  • Familiar with Rust, Julia, C, and CUDA
• Visualisation
  • Scientific plotting with matplotlib
  • 3D visualisation with Blender

Conference Contributions

• 2025 National Astronomy Meeting - Co-organised the “Explosive Transients in the Present and Future Sky” session

• 2025 UK & Ireland Transients Meeting - Member of the local organising committee

Publications

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Fast Analysis and Spectroscopy of Transients (FAST) Surveys

B. Godson, et. al., (In Prep). "The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Fast Analysis and Spectroscopy of Transients (FAST) Surveys." .

Teaching

Observatory Training

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant - Physics Laboratory I

Service and leadership

• 2020-2022: President of University of Exeter astronomy society

• 2024-2026: Chief Telescope Officer of University of Warwick astronomy society