Received MPhys Physics with Astrophysics

Department of Physics, University of Southampton

2012

Highest overall score in Physics undergraduate studies

Department of Physics, University of Southampton

2012

Leverhulme Trust award

2013-2014

First co-authored publication

Coe, M. J., Angus, R., Orosz, J. A., Udalski, A. A detailed study of the modulation of the optical light from Sk160/SMC X-1, 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 746

2013

Predoctoral Fellowship

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Advisor: Professor John Asher Johnson

2014-2015

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XXV. CoRoT-27b: a massive and dense planet on a short-period orbit

Parviainen, H., & others including Angus, R., Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XXV. CoRoT-27b: a massive and dense planet on a short-period orbit, 2014, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, 140

2014

Calibrating Gyrochronology using Kepler Asteroseismic Targets

Angus, R., Aigrain, S., Foreman-Mackey, D., McQuillan, A., Calibrating Gyrochronology using Kepler Asteroseismic Targets, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 225, 112.

2014

A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf

Vanderburg, A., & others including Angus, R., A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf, 2015, Nature, 526, 7574, 546.

2015

Simons Junior Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Astronomy, Columbia University D. Phil (Ph.D.) June 2016, Subdepartment of Astrophysics, University of Oxford. Advisor: Professor Suzanne Aigrain

October 2016 - October 2018

Probabilistic Inference of Basic Stellar Parameters: Application to Flickering Stars, 2016

Angus, R. & Kipping, D, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 823, 9.

2016

NASA Astrophyics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) grant

NASA Astrophyics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) grant awarded for ‘Stellar Rotation Periods from the K2 Spacecraft’, Co-Investigator

Sep 2017

NASA Astrophyics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) grant

NASA Astrophyics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) grant awarded for ‘Stellar Rotation Periods from the K2 Spacecraft’, Co-Investigator

Sep 2017

Immersive Performance

Public Outreach - Journey to an exoplanet, immersive performance at Caveat, NY

December 2017

Public Talk at Astronomy on Tap

Undead spacecraft, public talk at Astronomy on Tap, the Way Station, Brooklyn, NY

October 2017

Assistant Curator of Astrophysics

American Museum of Natural History, Division of Physical Sciences, Central Park West & 79th St, New York, NY 10024.

October 2018 - Present

Associate Research Scientist

Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics, 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10010.

October 2018 - Present

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Astronomy

Columbia University, Department of Astronomy, Pupin Hall, New York, NY, 10027

October 2018 - Present

K2 guest observer grant

awarded for ‘A novel approach to age analysis for Kepler M dwarfs’, Co-Investigator

July 2018

Panel Member for NASA ADAP grants

Astronomical Community Service Review - panel member for NASA ADAP grants

2018

Review panel member for Neural Information Processing Systems workshop

‘Machine learning for the physical sciences’ Referee for Nature, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Journal of Open Source Software

2018

Recent talks and tutorials

An introduction to Bayesian Inference, tutorial, Astro hack week, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

2018

Recent talks and tutorials

• An introduction to Bayesian Inference, tutorial, Astro hack week, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
• The ages of exoplanet hosts, contributed talk, Cool stars 20 conference, Boston, July 2018.
• Dr Ruth Angus Curriculum Vitae 2 Inferring stellar ages, invited talk, BayesComp conference, Barcelona, April 2018.
• Planetary systems across space and time, Astronomy Colloquium, University of Delaware, March 2018. An introduction to Gaussian Processes, K2 clusters workshop, Boston University, January 2018.
• NPR All things considered, Scientific expert, April 2018.

2018