Sam Bates

Postdoctoral Scientist

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email: sbates

Dr. Sam Bates is a postdoctoral scientist specializing in pulsar astrophysics. Sam received his PhD from Manchester University in 2011 and has held post-doctoral positions at West Virginia University and Manchester University since then.

Sam's research interests include surveys to discover new and interesting pulsars and radio transients, and simulations of the Galactic pulsar population using the software package PsrPopPy which he has been developing for the last few years.

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