Observational cosmologist studying distant galaxies and supermassive black holes across X-ray, optical, near-IR, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths, tracing star formation and accretion histories of the universe.
Bryant invented the hexabundle — a lightly-fused bundle of optical fibres that behaves as an imaging integral-field unit while retaining high throughput — and leads the Hector galaxy survey instrument built around them. Her work is squarely instrumentation: fibre bundle design and fabrication, throughput and cross-talk characterisation, and the deployment of hundreds of these units on a telescope to obtain spatially resolved spectroscopy of thousands of galaxies. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — the connection is device-level rather than conceptual, but the discipline — squeezing every photon out of a fibre-coupled optical train — is the same one that governs collection-efficiency-limited pT/sqrt(Hz) NV ensemble readout. Borderline inclusion under the astronomy criterion; kept because the sensor front end is the object of study.
Studies galaxy formation and evolution, dwarf galaxies, stellar populations, and spectroscopic properties of distant-universe galaxies.
Studies tidal disruption events and other optical transients from supermassive black holes using time-domain spectroscopic and photometric surveys.
Studies active galactic nuclei and supermassive black holes using reverberation-mapping and time-domain spectroscopy (e.g., SDSS).
Studies active galactic nuclei, supermassive black hole binaries, and time-domain phenomena using large optical/IR spectroscopic and imaging surveys.
Maiolino investigates the formation, evolution and transformation of galaxies and black holes, with a current focus on the discovery and characterisation of massive black holes and Pop III star signatures in the early Universe using JWST/NIRSpec; he is also Project Scientist for the MOONS multi-object spectrograph (VLT) and the ANDES high-resolution spectrograph (ELT).
Studies galaxy formation and evolution using spectroscopic surveys of high-redshift galaxies with JWST and other facilities.
Studies the structure, kinematics, and dynamics of star clusters and star-forming regions, stellar binary populations, and alternative stellar-evolution pathways such as blue stragglers.
Observational astronomer studying the growth of supermassive black holes and their co-evolution with host galaxies.