Dr Charles Walker
Senior Research Associate
Charlie’s background is in the study of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs): short, bright, extragalactic transient radio transients with as-of-yet unknown progenitors. He’s spent time building a transient detector backend for the UK’s e-MERLIN interferometer, and at the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, using the IllustrisTNG simulation to investigate the effects of cosmological large-scale structures on FRB signals as they propagate towards us through the Universe. At Cambridge, he’ll continue investigating how FRBs might be used as astrophysical tools. He’s also part of the UK’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Regional Center, working to help the upcoming telescope achieve its many scientific goals. Charlie enjoys scientific outreach and has formerly spent time working on The Jodcast astronomy podcast at the University of Manchester, and with BBC radio. In his spare time, he’s a keen reader and aspiring writer.
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This theme focuses on observational studies of the unexplored Universe; from its very first moments, through the mysterious early epochs when the Cosmos became the complex realm of celestial objects we know it to be.