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Dr Lisa Voigt

Lecturer
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
Dr Lisa Voigt
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 874028

  • Location

    3A.526, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Thursdays 11am-12pm (by appointment)

Profile

Qualifications

  • PhD in Astrophysics University of Cambridge, (2004)

  • MPhys (Master of Physics) University of Oxford, (2000)

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Lecturer, University of Essex (1/10/2019 - present)

Other academic

  • Post-doc, University College London (1/10/2006 - 31/3/2013)

  • Post-doc, Imperial College London (1/4/2006 - 30/9/2006)

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Data analysis and statistics with R (MA334)

  • Professional Placement (MA911)

Publications

Journal articles (15)

Bridle, S., Balan, ST., Bethge, M., Gentile, M., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., Hirsch, M., Hosseini, R., Jarvis, M., Kirk, D., Kitching, T., Kuijken, K., Lewis, A., Paulin-Henriksson, S., Schölkopf, B., Velander, M., Voigt, L., Witherick, D., Amara, A., Bernstein, G., Courbin, F., Gill, M., Heavens, A., Mandelbaum, R., Massey, R., Moghaddam, B., Rassat, A., Réfrégier, A., Rhodes, J., Schrabback, T., Shawe-Taylor, J., Shmakova, M., Van Waerbeke, L. and Wittman, D., Results of the GREAT08 Challenge★: an image analysis competition for cosmological lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, no-no

Voigt, LM., (2024). Impact of PSF misestimation and galaxy population bias on precision shear measurement using a CNN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528 (2), 3217-3231

Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S., Rowe, B., Voigt, L., Zuntz, J., Hirsch, M. and MacCrann, N., (2014). Sersic galaxy models in weak lensing shape measurement: model bias, noise bias and their interaction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 441 (3), 2528-2538

Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Voigt, L., Hirsch, M., Rowe, B. and Bridle, S., (2013). im3shape: a maximum likelihood galaxy shear measurement code for cosmic gravitational lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 434 (2), 1604-1618

Kitching, TD., Balan, ST., Bridle, S., Cantale, N., Courbin, F., Eifler, T., Gentile, M., Gill, MSS., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., Hirsch, M., Honscheid, K., Kacprzak, T., Kirkby, D., Margala, D., Massey, RJ., Melchior, P., Nurbaeva, G., Patton, K., Rhodes, J., Rowe, BTP., Taylor, AN., Tewes, M., Viola, M., Witherick, D., Voigt, L., Young, J. and Zuntz, J., (2012). Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423 (4), 3163-3208

Voigt, LM., Bridle, SL., Amara, A., Cropper, M., Kitching, TD., Massey, R., Rhodes, J. and Schrabback, T., (2012). The impact of galaxy colour gradients on cosmic shear measurement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421 (2), 1385-1398

Kacprzak, T., Zuntz, J., Rowe, B., Bridle, S., Refregier, A., Amara, A., Voigt, L. and Hirsch, M., (2012). Measurement and calibration of noise bias in weak lensing galaxy shape estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 427 (4), 2711-2722

Kitching, T., Balan, S., Bernstein, G., Bethge, M., Bridle, S., Courbin, F., Gentile, M., Heavens, A., Hirsch, M., Hosseini, R., Kiessling, A., Amara, A., Kirk, D., Kuijken, K., Mandelbaum, R., Moghaddam, B., Nurbaeva, G., Paulin-Henriksson, S., Rassat, A., Rhodes, J., Schölkopf, B., Shawe-Taylor, J., Gill, M., Shmakova, M., Taylor, A., Velander, M., van Waerbeke, L., Witherick, D., Wittman, D., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., Massey, R., Rowe, B., Schrabback, T. and Voigt, L., (2011). Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Challenge Handbook. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 5 (3)

Voigt, LM. and Bridle, SL., (2010). Limitations of model-fitting methods for lensing shear estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Bridle, S., Gill, M., Heavens, A., Heymans, C., High, FW., Hoekstra, H., Jarvis, M., Kirk, D., Kitching, T., Kneib, J-P., Kuijken, K., Shawe-Taylor, J., Lagatutta, D., Mandelbaum, R., Massey, R., Mellier, Y., Moghaddam, B., Moudden, Y., Nakajima, R., Paulin-Henriksson, S., Pires, S., Rassat, A., Amara, A., Refregier, A., Rhodes, J., Schrabback, T., Semboloni, E., Shmakova, M., van Waerbeke, L., Witherick, D., Voigt, L., Wittman, D., Applegate, D., Balan, ST., Berge, J., Bernstein, G., Dahle, H. and Erben, T., (2009). Handbook for the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 3 (1)

Paulin-Henriksson, S., Amara, A., Voigt, L., Refregier, A. and Bridle, SL., (2008). Point spread function calibration requirements for dark energy from cosmic shear. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 484 (1), 67-77

Voigt, LM. and Fabian, AC., (2006). Galaxy cluster mass profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 368 (2), 518-533

Voigt, LM. and Fabian, AC., (2004). Thermal conduction and reduced cooling flows in galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 347 (4), 1130-1149

Fabian, AC., Voigt, LM. and Morris, RG., (2002). On conduction, cooling flows and galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 335 (3), L71-L74

Voigt, LM., Schmidt, RW., Fabian, AC., Allen, SW. and Johnstone, RM., (2002). Conduction and cooling flows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 335 (1), L7-L11

Grants and funding

2024

LMS Reboot Grant

London Mathematical Society

Contact

lv18675@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 874028

Location:

3A.526, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Thursdays 11am-12pm (by appointment)

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