Dr Martin Dyer
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Research Software Engineer
Full contact details
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
E13b
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
- Profile
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I am a research software engineer based in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the ±¬ÁÏTV. I’m a member of the Astrophysics Research Cluster in MPS, as well as the Research Software Engineering team based in the School of Computer Science.
I completed my PhD in astronomy at the ±¬ÁÏTV in 2020, supervised by Prof Vik Dhillon. During my PhD I developed the hardware control and scheduling software for the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) prototype telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
After completing my PhD I continued working as a postdoc in the astronomy group, continuing my work on GOTO as part of a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I also developed the design for the SAMNet solar-monitoring telescope with colleagues in the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre. In 2024 I transitioned to a permanent role as a research software engineer and a member of the university RSE team.
I’m the head of the Technical Working Group for the GOTO collaboration (https://goto-observatory.org), which as of 2023 operates four fully-robotic telescopes based at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma and Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. I’m also a member of the HiPERCAM team (http://www.vikdhillon.staff.shef.ac.uk/hipercam), which operates the HiPERCAM, ULTRACAM and ULTRASPEC high-speed astronomical cameras in the Canary Islands, Chile and Thailand.As a member of the Research Software Engineering team at Sheffield, I’ve also worked on other research projects as a software developer, as well as running training sessions for staff and research students as part of the FAIR2 programme.
- Research interests
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Astronomical instrumentation
Hardware control and scheduling
Transient astronomy
Gravitational waves
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 547(2).
- . Universe, 12(2).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544(2), 1541-1587.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 543(4), 3731-3753.
- . Physical Review D, 112(8).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 544(1), L76-L82.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544(1), 548-571.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 543(3), 2116-2129.
- . The Astrophysical Journal, 987(2).
- . Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699.
- . The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 987(1).
- . The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8.
- . Advances in Space Research, 76(2), 764-783.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(1).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 2112-2126.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(4), 3588-3600.
- . Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 136(12).
- . The Astrophysical Journal, 977(2).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(2), 2113-2132.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(1), 1805-1822.
- . Research Notes of the AAS, 8(1).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 3445-3458.
- . Nature, 626(8000), 737-741.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 1814-1823.
- . Nature, 620(7972), 61-66.
- . Nature Astronomy, 7(8), 931-942.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(4), 4923-4937.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 1880-1896.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 752-762.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(4), 5123-5139.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516(4), 5052-5066.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516(2), 2792-2800.
- . Physical Review D, 105(10).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 3050-3064.
- . Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 12.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1), 1002-1009.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(4), 5086-5101.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(4), 6132-6139.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(4), 5463-5476.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(1), 350-366.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(3), 4345-4361.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(4), 4953-4962.
- . Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38.
- . Astronomy & Astrophysics, 643.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(1), 726-738.
- . Nature Astronomy, 4(7), 690-696.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 5535-5551.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 480(1), L131-L135.
- . Astrophysical Journal, 835(2).
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Conference proceedings
- . Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, Vol. 13094. Yokohama, Japan, 16 June 2024 - 16 June 2024.
- . Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems X, Vol. 13098 (pp 46-46). Yokohama, Japan, 16 June 2024 - 16 June 2024.
- . 2023 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC) (pp 9-14), 14 September 2023 - 15 September 2023.
- . Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX, Vol. 12182 (pp 121821y). Montréal, Québec, Canada, 17 July 2022 - 17 July 2022.
- . Proceedings of SPIE : Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI, Vol. 11452. Online conference, 14 December 2020 - 14 December 2020.
- . Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, Vol. 11445. Online, 14 December 2020 - 18 December 2020.
- . Proceedings SPIE 10704, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII, Vol. 10704. Austin, Texas, United States, 10 June 2018 - 10 June 2018.
Theses
- A telescope control and scheduling system for the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer.
Preprints
- ZTF J021804.16+071152.93: a dead cataclysmic variable and potential solution to the missing period bouncers, arXiv.
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- Characterising eclipsing white dwarf M dwarf binaries from multi-band eclipse photometry, arXiv.
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- Research group
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Astrophysics Research Cluster (/mps/research/physics/astrophysics)
Research Software Engineering ()
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