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Vicky Scowcroft

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Vicky Scowcroft

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8829-4653

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Biographical information

  • MPhys degree from University of Leeds (2006)
  • PhD from Liverpool John Moores University (2010)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate then Senior Research Associate at The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA (2009 - 2016)
  • Prize Fellow, University of Bath (2016)

Research interests

My research interests focus on variable stars, which I use to probe the structure and evolution of nearby galaxies and the Universe as a whole.

By using information about different populations of variable stars, I study the 3D and chemical structure of galaxies, examining how they have evolved over time and how they interact with each other.

I am also interested in the evolution of the Universe, using variable stars to study the expansion rate of the Universe. This in turn gives us a better understanding of its composition and evolution.

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  • 11 Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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  • 1 Doctoral Thesis

  • Near-IR CO and CN in classical Cepheids

    Call, S. G., Griffith, T., Hintz, E. G., Ardern, S., Scowcroft, V., Davidson, J. & Boizelle, B., 28 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545, 4, staf2216.

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  • The CASTOR mission

    All other authors, 1 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 11, 4, 37 p., 042202.

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  • Changing CO bands in near-IR spectra of CP Cephei

    Call, S. G., Hintz, E. G., Ardern, S., Scowcroft, V. & Morrell, T. D., 30 Nov 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 3, p. 2221-2227 7 p.

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  • Case study of developing an affordable undergraduate observatory

    Scowcroft, V., Davies, S., Mathlin, G. & Sloan, P., 31 May 2023, In: Physics Education. 58, 3, 13 p., 035014.

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  • The mid-infrared Leavitt Law for Classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

    Chown, A. H., Scowcroft, V. & Wuyts, S., 31 Jan 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 500, 1, p. 817-837 21 p.

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  • 1 Public talk, lecture, debate, seminar, workshop