Dr Alexander Andersson

Dr Alexander Andersson is a Research Associate at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Alexander is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Physics, where the opportunity to visit and use real telescopes convinced him to do a postgraduate degree in astrophysics.

Alexander finished his DPhil studies in Oxford in 2024 with a thesis focusing on developing methods for finding transient sources in the night sky. Specifically, he developed and applied a novel combination of machine learning and citizen science to find anomalies in data coming from radio telescopes such as MeerKAT.

Since September 2024 he has been a Breakthrough Listen Fellow and is using novel techniques to search for rare and elusive signals out in the Universe.