Cameron Heather
About
I am a final year PhD student interested in Cosmology, in particular applying extreme-value statistics to various structures in the Universe to predict the upper bound of their properties. My supervisor is Dr Siri ChongchitnanLink opens in a new window.
Publications
- Cameron Heather, Teeraparb Chantavat, Siri Chongchitnan, Poemwai Chainakun, The brightest X-ray AGNs at redshift 3 ≲ z ≲ 6, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 543, Issue 4, November 2025, Pages 3783–3790, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1690 [pdf]Link opens in a new window
- Cameron Heather, Teeraparb Chantavat, Siri Chongchitnan, Joseph Silk, Extreme-value modelling of the brightest galaxies at z ≳ 9, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 534, Issue 1, October 2024, Pages 173–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2051 [pdf]Link opens in a new window
Education
- 2018-2022: Mathematics (MMath), University of Sheffield.
- Master's dissertation: "Geodesics in Space-time" under the supervision of Prof Elizabeth Winstanley.
- SURE summer project (2021): "How to speed up the expansion of the Universe" under the supervision of Prof Carsten van de Bruck.
- UGRI summer project (2020): "Using the Chameleon Mechanism to hide the fifth force" under the supervision of a PhD student Richard Daniel.
Talks, Conferences and Workshops
- 22-26 September 2025: Participated and received a prize, UK Graduate Modelling Camp, Cambridge.
- 14th May 2025: Extreme-Value Statistics in Cosmology - Finding the brightest AGN, Postgraduate Seminar, Warwick.
- 21-25 October 2024: Extreme-value modelling of the brightest galaxies at z>9, COSMO'24, Kyoto, Japan.
- 3-7 June 2024: Attended Standard Cosmology on the Threshold of Change?
Thessaloniki, Greece.
Teaching
- 2025-2026: Teaching assistant for MA124 Mathematics by computer.
- Spring term 2025: Teaching assistant for MA3K7 Problem solving with python.
- 2024-2025: First-year undergraduate supervisor.
- 2024-2025: Teaching assistant for MA124 Mathematics by computer.
- Spring term 2024: Teaching assistant, MA3K7 Problem solving with python.
- 2023-2024: Teaching assistant for MA124 Mathematics by computer.
Outreach
- 6-10 October 2025: Teaching assistant for The marvels of our sun at ThaiPASS.
- 30th July 2025: Ran the Differential equations: Pictures and behaviour session for the Sutton Trust Summer School.
Other
- 2022-2025: SGSLC year representative.
- 2023-2024: Postgraduate Seminar organiser, joint with Marc Truter.
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