CV, Publication List, and Talks

Click here to download Tom J. Wilson’s Academic CV, here to download Tom J. Wilson’s Research Software Engineer CV, and here to view Tom J. Wilson’s publications on ADS.

Professional Work and Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter, 2019-

Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2018-2019

PhD in Physics, University of Exeter, 2013-2018

MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics, First Class Honours, University of Exeter, 2009-2013

Grants and Awards

2023, LINCC Frameworks Incubator Program, “Integrating Robust Cross-Matching from the LSST:UK into the LINCC Framework”, $20,000

2023-2025, Co-PI STFC Grant, “UK Involvement in LSST: Phase C (Exeter Component)”, £310,000

2022, “Above and Beyond” Award, University of Exeter – extending second-year astrophysics lab experiments and converting from IRAF to Python

2019-2023, Co-writer and lead researcher STFC Grant, “UK Involvement in LSST: Phase B (Exeter Component)”, £438,000

First Author Publications

Wilson Tom J., Naylor T., in prep.; Improvements to the Astrometric Uncertainty Function: Updated Algorithms for Astrometric Perturbations due to Unresolved Contaminants in Background-Dominated Sources and More Accurate Flux Contaminations

Wilson Tom J., 2023, RASTI, 2, 1; Overcoming Separation Between Counterparts Due to Unknown Proper Motions in Catalogue Cross-Matching

Wilson Tom J., 2022, RNAAS, 6, 60; A Parameterized Model for Differential Galaxy Counts at Any Wavelength

Wilson Tom J., 2021, RNAAS, 5, 265; On the Use of Evidence and Goodness-of-Fit Metrics in Exoplanet Atmosphere Interpretation

Wilson Tom J., Naylor T., 2018, MNRAS, 481, 2148; A Contaminant-Free Catalogue of Gaia DR2-WISE Galactic Plane Matches: Including the Effects of Crowding in the Cross-Matching of Photometric Catalogues

Wilson Tom J., Naylor T., 2018, MNRAS, 473, 5570; Improving Catalogue Matching By Supplementing Astrometry with Additional Photometric Information
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Gaia DR2-WISE Galactic Plane Matches (Wilson+, 2018)

Wilson Tom J., Naylor T., 2017, MNRAS, 469, 2517; The Effect of Unresolved Contaminant Stars on the Cross-matching of Photometric Catalogues

Co-Author Publications

Wilson A. J., Lakeland B. S., Wilson T. J., Naylor T., 2023, MNRAS, 521, 354; A Naive Bayes Classifier for identifying Class II YSOs

Astropy Collaboration, …, Wilson T. J., et al., 2022, ApJ, 935, 167; The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

Bruno G., Lewis N. K., Valenti J. A., Pagano I., Wilson T. J., et al., 2022, MNRAS, 509, 5030; Hiding in Plain Sight: Observing Planet-Starspot Crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope

Bradley L., Sipőcz B., Robitaille T., Tollerud E., Vinícius Z., Deil C., Barbary K., Wilson T. J., et al., 2019-2022, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7419741; astropy/photutils: v0.6 through v1.6.0

Lewis N. K., …, Wilson T. J., et al., 2020, ApJL, 902, 19; Into the UV: The Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b Revealed

Wakeford H. R., Sing D. K., Stevenson K. B., Lewis N. K., Pirzkal N., Wilson T. J., et al., 2020, AJ, 159, 204; Into the UV: A Precise Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-41b Using Hubble’s WFC3/UVIS G280 Grism

Steinhardt C., …, Wilson T. J., et al., 2020, ApJS, 247, 64; The Buffalo HST Survey

Wakeford H. R., Wilson T. J., et al., 2019, RNAAS, 3, 7; Exoplanet Atmosphere Forecast: Observers Should Expect Spectroscopic Transmission Features to be Muted to 33%

Wakeford H. R., Lewis N. K., Fowler J., Bruno G., Wilson T. J., et al., 2019, AJ, 157, 11; Disentangling the Planet from the Star in Late-Type M Dwarfs: A Case Study of TRAPPIST-1g

Wakeford H. R., Sing D. K., Deming D., Lewis N. K., Goyal J., Wilson T. J., et al., 2018, AJ, 155, 29; The Complete Transmission Spectrum of WASP-39b with a Precise Water Constraint

Rumble D., Hatchell J., Pattle K., Kirk H., Wilson T., et al., 2016, MNRAS, 460, 4150; The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: Evidence for Radiative Heating and Contamination in the W40 Complex
VizieR Online Data Catalog: JCMT Gould Belt Survey: W40 complex (Rumble+, 2016)

Rees J., Wilson T., et al., 2016, IAUS, 314, 205; The Age of Taurus: Environmental Effects on Disc Lifetimes

Hatchell J., Wilson T., et al., 2013, MNRAS, 429, 10; The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 Observations of Radiative Feedback in NGC 1333

Talks and Conferences

5 invited seminars, 4 invited conference talks, 4 contributed seminars, 21 contributed conference talks, 5 contributed conference posters.

Links to talk slides and posters given below where available

March 2024, LINCC Tech Talk Series, Invited Talk

January 2024, Rubin Solar Neighborhood Ultracool Dwarfs Meeting, Contributed Talk

October 2023, LSST@Europe 5, Contributed Talk

August 2023, Rubin Project and Community Workshop 2023, Contributed Talk

July 2023, National Astronomy Meeting 2023, UK Involvement in LSST, Contributed Talk

July 2023, National Astronomy Meeting 2023, 10 years after Herschel, Contributed Talk

July 2023, National Astronomy Meeting 2023, Euclid exploitation in the UK, Contributed Talk

March 2023, 3rd TVS Software Workshop, Invited Talk

October 2022, LSST@Europe4, Contributed Talk

July 2022, National Astronomy Meeting 2022, Contributed Talk

July 2022, Cool Stars 21, Contributed Poster

June 2022, Asteroseismology MW-Gaia Workshop, Contributed Talk

June 2022, Bristol-Cardiff Joint Seminar Series, Invited Seminar

May 2022, Carnegie EPL, Invited Seminar

February 2022, University of Delaware, Invited Seminar

August 2021, Rubin Observatory Project and Community Workshop, Contributed Talk

July 2021, National Astronomy Meeting 2021, Contributed Talk

July 2021, National Astronomy Meeting 2021, Invited Talk

June 2021, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VII, Contributed Poster

May 2021, LSST:UK All-Hands Meeting, Invited Talk

May 2021, LSST:UK All-Hands Meeting, Contributed Talk

April 2021, UKEXOM 2021, Contributed Talk; recording here

April 2021, University of Exeter, Contributed Seminar

March 2021, Cool Stars 20.5, Contributed Poster

October 2020, Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Meeting: TVS with Rubin Observatory, Contributed Talk

August 2020, Rubin Observatory Project and Community Workshop, Contributed Talk

July 2020, University of Exeter, Contributed Seminar

July 2019, Python in Astronomy 19, Contributed Talk

June 2019, STScI, HotSci@STScI Colloquia, Contributed Seminar

March 2019, STScI, Friday Science Coffee, Contributed Seminar

February 2019, TESS Data Workshop, STScI, Contributed Talk

February 2019, UNLV BUFFALO 2019 Meeting, Contributed Talk

May 2018, Exeter, First Year PhD Development Day, Invited Talk

March 2018, Science with Precision Astrometry, Contributed Poster

September 2017, Cardiff Star Formation Workshop, Contributed Talk

July 2016, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Invited Seminar

June 2016, Cool Stars 19, Contributed Poster

April 2015, BECSS Bristol, Contributed Talk

March 2015, Milky Way Astrophysics from Wide-Field Surveys, Contributed Talk

Committee and Service Work

August 2023, Rubin Project and Community Workshop 2023 Crowded Fields Session, Science Organising Committee

May 2021, LSST:UK All-Hands Meeting, Local Organising Committee

June 2019, Hubble Support Scientist for Cycle 29 Time Allocation Committee

Peer review referee for AAS Journals and JOSS

Member of LSST Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume Science Collaboration (SMWLVSC)

Member of LSST SMWLVSC Crowded Stellar Field Task Force

Member of Vera C. Rubin Observatory SIT-Com Commissioning team (Astrometric Science Unit)

Teaching and Outreach

Astrophysics Lab Course Re-Write Lead, 2021-

Undergraduate Astrophysics Lab Demonstrator, 2013-2022

Undergraduate Python Demonstrator, 2021

Undergraduate Astrophysics Teaching Telescope Operator, 2013-2017

Undergraduate Physics Problem Tutor, 2013-2017

“Pint of Science” Event Organiser, 2013-2018

Observing at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, 2014

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