Dr. Oisín Creaner is a computational astrophysicist and assistant professor of physical sciences at Dublin City University (DCU), where he works on High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to astrophysical simulation and analysis challenges.
His group focuses on exoplanet detection by employing high-speed analytics and machine learning to large archival datasets. The techniques they are developing have applications in a variety of fields where rare, weak and intermittent signals in noisy data have an outsized importance, from finance to Earth-observation. He is also a parner in the development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs), novel cryogenic detectors with spatial, temporal and energy resolution unrivalled by contemporary semiconductor-based detectors.
He has served as Treasurer of the Institute of Physics (IoP) Computational Physics Group (CPG) since 2022. He is responsible for ensuring that the CPG supports and organizes events that help advance the needs of the community. He is also the secretary of the Astronomical Society of Ireland (ASI), and a member of the Royal Irish Academy’s (RIA) physical, chemical and mathematical sciences multi-disciplinary committee.
He is a passionate advocate for early career researchers and the importance of interdisciplinary training for physics graduates. He has written for The Conversation and given radio interviews, as well as government policy consultation documents. He has been a frequent guest lecturer at Astronomy Ireland, Explorium and other science communication venues.
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