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Laura Wolz is a Senior Lecturer at the Jodrell-Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. She holds a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship (2022–present), supporting her research and group focused on HI intensity mapping with radio telescopes, particularly the SKA Observatory. Previously, she was a Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow at the University of Melbourne (pre-2019) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University College London (PhD, 2014). Her research explores cosmological questions related to dark energy using HI intensity mapping techniques, addressing observational challenges like foreground residuals and beam systematics. She co-chairs the HI Intensity Mapping Focus Group within the SKA Cosmology Science Working Group.
Education: PhD in Physics from University College London (2014), Master’s from Munich, Germany (supervised by Prof. J. Weller). Research interests include dark energy, galaxy evolution, and radio astronomy. Active in outreach, she speaks at events like Girls in Physics and BlueDot Festival.
Her recent work emphasizes HI intensity mapping with MeerKAT and SKA, foreground mitigation strategies, and cosmic signal reconstruction. Awards include UKRI Fellowship and ARC DECRA. She advises MPhys, MSc, and PhD students in astrophysics. Current roles include membership in the SKAO Science and Engineering Advisory Committee (2023–present).
