The REACH map

REACH started in 2017, and it has been growing since. Currently, we have 40 members from 14 institutions in 9 different countries.

Team leads

Eloy de Lera Acedo

University of Cambridge, UK
Faculty
Project PI
Chair of the board

Dirk de Villiers 

Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Faculty
Project Co-PI 
Board member

Will Handley 

University of Cambridge, UK
Faculty
WP lead (Data analysis)

Anastasia Fialkov 

University of Cambridge, UK
Faculty
WP lead (Theory)

Saurabh Pegwal

Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Postdoctoral researcher
WP lead (Instrumentation)

Alessio Magro 

University of Malta, Malta
Faculty
WP lead (Software)

Research team in 2025

Dominic Anstey 

University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
Data analysis and Instrumentation

Harry Bevins 

University of Cambridge, UK
KICC Research Fellow
Data analysis and Theory

John Cumner 

University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
Instrumentation

Girish Kulkarni 

TIFR, India
Faculty
Theory and Data analysis

Daan Meerburg 

University of Groningen, Netherlands
Faculty
Theory and Data analysis

Jonathan Pritchard 

Imperial College, UK
Faculty
Theory 

Emma Shen

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Christian Kirkham

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Joe Pattison

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Marta Spinelli

Université Côte d'Azur, France
Faculty
Data analysis

Martin Bucher

Université Paris 7/CNRS, France
Faculty
Instrumentation and Data analysis

Gianni Bernardi

INAF IRA, Italy
Staff Scientist
Data analysis

Savannah Stanbury

Rhodes University, South Africa
PhD student
Data analysis

Sammuel Leeney

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Kaan Artuc

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Instrumentation


Oleg Smirnov

Rhodes University, South Africa
Faculty
Data analysis

Paul Scott

University of Cambridge, UK
Emeritus
Instrumentation and Data analysis

Christophe Craeye

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Faculty
Instrumentation

Rohan Patel

University of Cambridge, UK
Research Assistant
Instrumentation

Ewald Puchwein

AIP, Germany
Faculty
Theory

John Ely

University of Cambridge, UK
Electronics technician
Instrumentation

Aleksandra Dragovic

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Adarsh Kumar Dash

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis and Instrumentation

Saswata Dasgupta

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Theory and Data analysis

Peter Sims 

University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
Data analysis and Theory

Anchal Saxena

University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
Data analysis

Shikhar Mittal

University of Cambridge, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
Theory and Data analysis

Gabriella Rajpoot

University of Cambridge, UK
MPhil student
Data analysis

Adele Chu

University of Cambridge, UK
MPhil student
Instrumentation and Data analysis

Kris Zarb Adami

University of Oxford, UK
Postdoctoral researcher
&
University of Malta, Malta
Faculty
Instrumentation

Jean Cavillot

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Postdoctoral researcher
Instrumentation

Jiten Dhanda

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Theory

Gary Allen

Stellenbosch University, South Africa
MEng student
Instrumentation and Data analysis

Daniel Robins

University of Cambridge, UK
PhD student
Data analysis

Jiacong Zhu

University of Cambridge, UK
Visiting PhD student (from BAO, China) 
Instrumentation

You

We are always open to welcome bright enthusiastic scientists to REACH. Contact us here if you are interested.

Past members

We are incredibly grateful to all the beautiful minds who were part of REACH at some point in its journey.