Cosmology & Astrophysics
Research in this area is undertaken by the Cosmology Group at AIMS South Africa in a variety of areas of theoretical, observational and computational cosmology with membership of various large international collaborations such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition the group maintains close working relationships with the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), the South African SKA project, the Centre for High Performance Computing and the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP). The group also runs workshops, seminars and a vigorous visitors programme bringing experimentalists, theorists and data analysis experts together to encourage interaction and collaboration.
Researchers
Prof. Bruce Bassett, Senior Resident Researcher
Prof. Bassett is head of the Cosmology Group at AIMS South Africa. Bruce is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, where he obtained his MSc in Applied Mathematics …
Prof. Mario Santos, SARChi Chair in Cosmology with Multi-Wavelength Data
His main area of research is Cosmology. In particular, he is studying how the next generation of large radio telescopes, such as MeerKAT in South Africa and the future SKA will be able to answer fundamental questions in Cosmology …
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Erick Jonathan
Almaraz Aviña
Machine Learning techniques in Cosmology
Dr Nirina Tahiridimbisoa
Machine Learning
PhD students
Ethan Roberts
Cosmology
Supervisor: Bruce Bassett
Research Master’s students
Blake Cunningham
Machine Learning
Supervisor: Bruce Bassett
Max Nieuwoudt
Reinforcement learning for the control of an intelligent observatory
Supervisor: Bruce Bassett
Evander Nyoni
Machine Learning
Supervisor: Bruce Bassett
Emmanuel Sekyi
Exploring new deep learning methods for AI
Supervisor: Bruce Bassett