The cosmology group at the University of Auckland works on understanding the predictions of different models of the Big Bang and astrophysical models and testing them against observations. 

We are involved with the LISA mission and the Vera C Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

     

    Current Group Members

    Prof. Richard Easther

    Dr Peter Hayman

    Dr Preeti Cowan

    Dr Mark Mueller

    Russell Boey [PhD]

    Laura Burn [PhD]

    Chiara Testini [PhD]

     

    Alumni

    Dr Emily Kendall [Post-doc, PhD]

    Shaun Hotchkiss [Post-doc]

    Mateja Gosenca [Post-doc]

    Grigor Aslanyan [Post-doc]

    Lerh Feng Low [PhD]

    Nathan Musoke [PhD]

    Layne Price [PhD]

    Yourong Frank Wang [PhD]

    Luna Zagorac [PhD]

    Efrem Carnate [MSc]

    Lillian Guo [MSc]

    Tim Koorey [MSc]

    Leon Southey-Ray [MSc] 

    Angela Xue [MSc]

    Sam Doak [Project]

    Maxwell Finan-Jenkin [Project]

    Bobby Song [Project]

      

    Collaborators and Connections 

    Eugene Lim / Kings 

    Jens Niemeyer / Gottingen

    Nikhil Padmanabhan / Yale

    David Parkinson / KASI, Korea

    Hiranya Peiris / Cambridge