Jessica BSc, MAst, PhD Candidate

Bio:

Education:
University of Oxford/ IPMU University of Tokyo, PhD Astrophysics
University of Cambridge, MAst in Astrophysics
University of Warwick, BSc Hons Physics

Expertise:
Cosmology, Astrophysics

Biography
Jessica is a dedicated and friendly Astrophysicist. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Warwick, achieving top grades and securing a place in the highly competitive Part III Astrophysics Masters program at Cambridge University. There, she specialised in Cosmology, and published her masters thesis research on measuring the expansion of the universe using supernovae. She subsequently earned a competitive scholarship for a joint PhD program between the University of Oxford and the University of Tokyo, concentrating on “Cosmology from Non-Gaussian Statistics.” Her research involves using simulations of the universe to test current cosmological theories. In her free time she in an active member of the University of Tokyo Kendo team, and is often travelling for competitions on the weekends! She has also spent many years teaching English to Japanese students.

Seminars, Conferences, Publications

• Potential signature of a quadrupolar hubble expansion in Pantheon+supernovae Jessica A Cowell, Suhail Dhawan, Hayley J Macpherson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 526, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 1482‑1494 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/526/1/1482/7273134

IN PREP

• Finding the Optimal Mark; Optimising Mark functions with Fisher Information, Cowell et. al, for submission to MNRAS
• First Constrains from Marked Power Spectra with Weak Lensing Data, Cowell et. al, for submission to MNRAS
• Filtered Squared Bispectrum (FSB): A new non‑Gaussian statistic for Cosmology , expected 4th author