Tom Killestein

Cordinator Kilonova Seekers
Neural Network Classifiers

(University of Turku)

Tom currently works on developing Bayesian deep learning models for the detection and classification of transients within the GOTO pipeline and datastream.

Lisa Kelsey

Cordinator Kilonova Seekers

(University of Portsmouth)

Lisa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth. Her research interests include transient objects, particularly kilonovae, and citizen science. She is also interested in cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae, with a focus on correlations with host galaxy environments.

Kendall Ackley

Coordinator Kilonova/GW Science
Scheduling/Strategy

(University of Warwick)

Kendall is a postdoc with the GOTO team at University of Warwick. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Her research interests are in coordination of EM follow-up of gravitational wave sources, astrophysical transients such as gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, and machine learning techniques with applications to large-scale data sets.

Don Pollaco

Instrument scientist

(University of Warwick)

Enric Pallé

IAC principal scientist

(IAC)

Rene Breton

Member Steering

(University of Manchester)

Rene Breton is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. His research interests revolve around neutron stars and pulsars, transients, binary systems, tests of gravity and neutron star equation of state.

Kanthanakorn Noysena

Member Steering

(NARIT)

K. Noysena is a researcher at NARIT. His research interest is multi-messenger astronomy that concerns gravitational waves and
electromagnetic waves.

Laura Nuttall

Member Steering
Coordinator Outreach/Education

(University of Portsmouth)

Laura is a Reader of Astrophysics and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her research interests are in kilonovae and any other counterparts to gravitational wave events. Laura also works in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Rubina Kotak

Member Steering
Coordinator SN

(University of Turku)

Paul O’Brien

Member Steering

(University of Leicester)

Paul has research interests in explosive transients, tidal disruption events and multi-messenger sources. In addition to GOTO, Paul is an investigator on several space missions designed to find transients and survey the sky at high energies.