Curriculum Vitae [Jan 2025]

A. J. Cooper

Personal

Current Position: Hintze Fellow, University of Oxford (03/2023 - 03/2026)
Place of Birth: United Kingdom, 1994
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Languages: English, Spanish

Education

2022 - PhD, Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam
Thesis: Multi-messenger and Multi-wavelength Signatures of Compact Object Transients
Supervisors: Prof. Ralph Wijers & Dr. Antonia Rowlinson

2018 - MSc, Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam
Thesis: Cosmic Rays from X-ray Binaries
Supervisor: Prof. Sera Markoff
Grade: 8.1/10

2016 - BSc Hons, Physics and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Thesis: Object Permanence in Minkowski Spacetime
Supervisor: Dr. David Ingram
Grade: First class

First Author Publications

Beyond the Rotational Deathline: Radio Emission from Ultra-long Period Magnetars
Cooper, A. J. and Wadiasingh, Z. MNRAS, 2024, 533, 2133

Pulsar revival in neutron star mergers: multi-messenger prospects for the discovery of pre-merger coherent radio emission
Cooper, A. J., Gupta, O., Wadiasingh, Z., Wijers, R.A.M.J., Boersma, O., Andreoni, I., Rowlinson, A., Gourdji, K.
MNRAS, 2023, 519, 3923

Testing afterglow models of FRB 200428 with early post-burst observations of SGR 1935+2154
Cooper, A. J., Rowlinson, A., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Bassa, C., Gourdji, K., Hessels, J., van der Horst, A., Kondratiev, V., Michilli, D., Pleunis, Z., Shimwell, T., ter Veen, S.
MNRAS, 2022, 517, 5483

Coherent curvature radiation: maximum luminosity and high-energy emission
Cooper, A. J., Wijers, R. A. M. J.
MNRAS Letters, 2021, 508, L32

High-energy cosmic rays from X-ray binary jets
Cooper, A. J., Gaggero, D., Markoff, S., Zhang, S.
MNRAS, 2020, 493, 3212

Multifrequency observations of SGR J1935+2154
Bailes, M., Bassa, C. G., Bernardi, G., Buchner, S. , Burgay, M., Caleb, M., Cooper, A. J., Desvignes, G., Groot, P. J., Heywood, I., Jankowski, F., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Malenta, M., Naldi, G., Pilia, M., Pupillo, G., Rajwade, K. M. , Spitler, L., Surnis, M. Stappers, B. W. , Addis, A., Bloemen, S., Bezuidenhout, M. C., Bianchi, G., Champion, D. J., Chen, W., Driessen, L. N., Geyer, M. , Gourdji, K. , Hessels, J. W. T., Kondratiev, V. I., Klein-Wolt, M., Körding, E., Le Poole, R., Liu, K., Lower, M. E. , Lyne, A. G., Magro, A., McBride, V., Mickaliger, M. B., Morello, V. , Parthasarathy, A. , Paterson, K., Perera, B. B. P. , Pieterse, D. L. A., Pleunis, Z., Possenti, A., Rowlinson, A. , Serylak, M. , Setti, G., Tavani, M., Wijers, R. A. M. J., ter Veen, S., Venkatraman Krishnan, V., Vreeswijk, P., Woudt, P. A.
MNRAS, 2020, 493, 3212

Experience

  • Teaching: Oxford Astrophysics C1 Tutor, 2 BSc project-based course, 1 MSc project-based course
  • Supervision: Primary supervisor of 2 Oxford MSc students, 5 Summer students
  • Programming: Python (all common data science packages), C++, Linux/Windows/Mac, Bash, Distributed Computing