Nichole Barry

I am an avid researcher in the field of observational cosmology, radio science, and precision analysis. I specialise in Epoch of Reionisation searches, developing unique analysis approaches that push the boundaries of achieved precision within the radio-science community. I did my PhD at the University of Washington, and have worked at the University of Melbourne and Curtin University. In 2024, I began my tenure-track journey at the University of New South Wales as a Scientia Lecturer. I am always happy to have a conversation about pursuing an Honours or PhD project in early Universe cosmology using radio interferometers. I work with some of the world's largest interferometers to measure some of the Universe's faintest signals, using sound analysis to perform statistical reconstruction of the birth of the first stars. Specifically, I use petabytes of data from the Murchison Widefield Array try to observe the 21-cm hyperfine transition of hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation and create a movie in time of our Cosmic Dawn. Keywords: astronomy & astrophysics, cosmology: observations, astronomy, interferometry, higher order statistics, data science. Fields of Research (FoR): Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy