Benjamin Pope

Dr. Benjamin Pope is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics. His affiliations include the Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing at UQ and a former NASA Sagan Fellowship at NYU. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an MSc/BSc from the University of Sydney.

His research spans exoplanet detection, JWST instrumentation, radio astronomy, and computational astrophysics. Key areas include:

• Differentiable modeling for exoplanet transit analysis
• Low-frequency radio signatures of star-planet interactions
• Radiocarbon applications in solar activity tracing
• High-contrast imaging with space telescopes

He has received significant recognition, including:

• ARC DECRA Fellowship
• NASA Sagan Fellowship

Dr. Pope leads projects like the JWST Aperture Masking Interferometer and TOLIMAN space telescope development. He is not currently accepting students.