Sarah Bridle

Sarah Bridle
Born Sarah Louise Bridle
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, MSci, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Bayesian methods in cosmology (2001)
Doctoral advisor Mike Hobson[3]
Website sarahbridle.net

Sarah Louise Bridle is a professor in the Extragalactic astronomy and Cosmology research group in the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, part of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. She is known for her work applying statistical techniques to the Cosmic microwave background (CMB)[4] and on the use of weak gravitational lensing in cosmology.[5][6][7][8] From 2006 - 2015 she co-led weak lensing efforts with The Dark Energy Survey (DES), was co-lead of the Euclid Weak Lensing working group and was Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) UK Project Scientist from 2013 to 2017.

Education

Bridle was educated at the University of Cambridge where she was awarded a first class Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1997 and a PhD in 2000 on Bayesian methods in cosmology supervised by Mike Hobson.[3][9]

Career and research

Bridle's research investigates the nature of the dark energy which may be the cause of the accelerating universe. She uses weak gravitational lensing to investigate dark energy because it can reveal the distribution of dark matter.[3]

Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Royal Society[1] and the European Research Council (ERC).[3][10]

Following her PhD, Bridle was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) in Toulouse and Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 2004, Bridle was appointed a Lecturer at University College London and was subsequently promoted to Reader in 2008. She was appointed a professor at the University of Manchester in 2013.[3]

Bridle has supervised several PhD students.[3]

Awards and honours

In 2003 Bridle was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) for early career scientists which she held until 2012.[1]

In 2008, Bridle received a L'Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowship for Women in Science.[11] A recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society's 2009 Fowler Award,[2] Bridle was nominated one of the "Top 10 UK Scientists under 40" by the Times Eureka Magazine in 2010.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Anon (2015). "Dr Sarah Bridle, Research Fellow". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 Anon (13 January 2009). "Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) awards medals to two UCL scientists". University College London. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bridle, Sarah (2015). "Sarah Louise Bridle CV" (PDF). sarahbridle.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Antony; Bridle, Sarah (2002). "Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: A Monte Carlo approach" (PDF). Physical Review D. 66 (10). arXiv:astro-ph/0205436. Bibcode:2002PhRvD..66j3511L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.103511.
  5. ↑ Bridle, Sarah L.; Lahav, Ofer; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.; Steinhardt, Paul J. (2003). "Precision Cosmology? Not Just Yet". Science. 299 (5612): 1532–1533. arXiv:astro-ph/0303180. Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1532B. doi:10.1126/science.1082158. PMID 12624255.
  6. ↑ Sarah Bridle's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ↑ Heymans, C.; Van Waerbeke, L.; Bacon, D.; Berge, J.; Bernstein, G.; Bertin, E.; Bridle, S.; Brown, M. L.; Clowe, D.; Dahle, H.; Erben, T.; Gray, M.; Hetterscheidt, M.; Hoekstra, H.; Hudelot, P.; Jarvis, M.; Kuijken, K.; Margoniner, V.; Massey, R.; Mellier, Y.; Nakajima, R.; Refregier, A.; Rhodes, J.; Schrabback, T.; Wittman, D. (2006). "The Shear Testing Programme – I. Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 368 (3): 1323–1339. arXiv:astro-ph/0506112. Bibcode:2006MNRAS.368.1323H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10198.x.
  8. ↑ Massey, Richard; Heymans, Catherine; Bergé, Joel; Bernstein, Gary; Bridle, Sarah; Clowe, Douglas; Dahle, Håkon; Ellis, Richard; Erben, Thomas; Hetterscheidt, Marco; High, F. William; Hirata, Christopher; Hoekstra, Henk; Hudelot, Patrick; Jarvis, Mike; Johnston, David; Kuijken, Konrad; Margoniner, Vera; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Mellier, Yannick; Nakajima, Reiko; Paulin-Henriksson, Stephane; Peeples, Molly; Roat, Chris; Refregier, Alexandre; Rhodes, Jason; Schrabback, Tim; Schirmer, Mischa; Seljak, Uroš; Semboloni, Elisabetta; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic (2007). "The Shear Testing Programme 2: Factors affecting high-precision weak-lensing analyses" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 376 (1): 13–38. arXiv:astro-ph/0608643. Bibcode:2007MNRAS.376...13M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11315.x.
  9. ↑ Bridle, Sarah Louise (2001). Bayesian methods in cosmology (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 879392124. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.596905.
  10. ↑ Anon (2015). "UK Government Grants awarded to Sarah Bridle". rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 29 November 2015.
  11. ↑ Anon (2012). "Women in Science: Sarah Bridle". womeninscience.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
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