Joris Verbiest
Research Professor
Florida Space Institute
Partnership I
joris.verbiest@ucf.edu
Research Groups
2003: BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
2005: MSc in “Advanced Techniques in Radio Astronomy and Space Science” at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2009: PhD in radio astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne) and ATNF/CSIRO (Sydney), Australia.
2009: Postdoctoral Researcher at WVU, USA.
2010-2012: Marie-Curie fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany.
2012-2013: postdoctoral researcher at MPIfR in Bonn, Germany.
2013-2020: juniorprofessor (comparable to assistant professor) in physics at Bielefeld University, Germany.
2020-2022: professor (comparable to associate professor) in astrophysics at Bielefeld University, Germany.
2022-…: IPTA project manager at FSI.
Dr. Verbiest’s educational background is largely technological, although his scientific career (from the PhD onwards) has had little to do with technology and is more related to data analysis and data science. The scientific highlight has been PTA work (i.e. Pulsar Timing Arrays, which are the effort to detect gravitational waves by meticulously analysing the arrival times of pulses from pulsars). During his PhD on that topic, he was the first to demonstrate (based on real data rather than theoretical predictions) that the PTA concept was indeed viable; during his Marie-Curie stint he led the first global combination of PTA data. As a professor, he shifted his focus somewhat to low-frequency radio astronomy (think <250MHz), specifically in order to study the ionized interstellar medium. This naturally forced him into studying the heliosphere and, to some degree, the ionosphere as well. (That looks like a very different topic, but as it turns out, the heliosphere and the ionized interstellar medium are critical for the success of PTA research.)
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