Christopher Pattison

I completed my PhD in May 2020, having studied a period in the very early universe called "inflation", during which the universe expanded by a very large amount in a very short amount of time.

I have recently worked on innovation projects at The University of Portsmouth, where we took techniques, knowledge and software from astronomy and astrophysics and applying them to other areas of research (often in very different disciplines). For example, I have worked on a project that uses telescope software to study the spread of diseases through droplets, and also used machine learning to diagnose fractured bones. I am now involved with the upcoming Euclid Space Telescope, launching in July 2023.

I am also very interested in science communication. Outside of research, I run a YouTube channel (simply called Chris Pattison) that looks at a wide variety of cosmology topics and astronomy news.