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Dr Oisin Creaner

Name: Dr Oisin Creaner
Title:  MKIDs Postdoctoral Research Fellow
E-Mail: creanero@cp.dias.ie
Address: Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2 D02-XF86

Biographical sketch:

Dr. Oisín Creaner graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a degree in Physics with Astrophysics in 2007. He was awarded his PhD in Computational Astrophysics from the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin in 2017 following a project with Dr. Eugene Hickey and Kevin Nolan entitled “Data Mining by Grid Computing in the Search for Extrasolar Planets.” Between 2013 and 2017, he was a Lecturer in Data Analytics in National College of Ireland and Technological University, Dublin. From 2018-2019 he worked at DIAS on the RINGS project, part of the RadioNet consortium.  In 2019, he took up a role at Berkeley Lab in the USA as a NESAP postdoc working on GPU software for the LZ Dark Matter detector.  He returned to Ireland in 2021 to work on streamlining and optimisation of the readout software for MKIDs, a novel kind of UV-Optical-NIR detector with many applications in time- and energy-dependent astronomy.

In addition, Oisin is currently the Communications Officer and ECR Rep on the Astronomical Society of Ireland, is a member of the Computational Physics group committee of the Institute of Physics and is a member of the National Astronomy Education Coordinator team for Ireland with the International Astronomical Union.

His primary research interests are the application of optimised software solutions to astronomical problems, particularly variable astronomical objects.