Research Interests

The majority of my work and research interests revolve around: 

• Short-duration Gamma Ray Bursts

• Kilonovae and R-process nucleosynthesis

• Compact Binary Mergers and their Environments

• Galaxy Dynamics of Binaries

• Transient Host Galaxy Morphologies

• Stellar Evolution

• Gravitational Waves

• Spidery Pulsars

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (Remote Speaker), April 2024

• The University of Stockholm, Sweden, October 2023

• Nordita Institute (Science + Scienitfic Fika), Stockholm, Sweden, October 2023

• The University of Birmingham, Summer School Lecture, UK, August 2023

• Liverpool John Moores University (Sci-Art + Science), UK, March 2023

• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, 2022

• University of Edinburgh (Lunch Talk), UK, May 2022

• University of Glasgow (Gravitational Wave Group), UK, January 2022

• Mullard Space Science Laboratory/University College London, UK, October 2020

• University of Tokyo, Japan, November 2019

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2019

• Leiden University, The Netherlands, February 2019

• • Research to Innovator #13 Participant: Awarded Funding

  • RAS Poster Exhibition 2020: Winner

  • Images of Research Competition 2019:  Runner-Up

  • RAS Travel Grant

  • Astronomy Meets the Arts: Winner

  • University of Leicester Science and Engineering Poster Competition 2019: Finalist

  • University of Leicester Science and Engineering Poster Competition 2018: Semi-Finalist

Lead Author:

1. The host galaxies and displacements of compact binaries, MNRAS, Mandhai et al., 2021.

2. The Rates of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Local Universe, Galaxies, Mandhai et al., 2018

3. The Dusty Tale of Symbiotic Stars (Cursory Title), MNRAS [In Prep], [Mandhai et al. ]

Co-author:

1. LOFAR early-time search for coherent radio emission from Short GRB 181123B, MNRAS, Rowlinson et al., 2020

Proceedings:

1. The Rates of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Local Universe, Mandhai et al., 2019 (Proceedings)

2. An Insight into The Galactic Hosts and Environments of Merging Compact Binary Objects, Mandhai et al., 2020 (Proceedings)

• BlackGEM Meeting 2024 (Manchester, UK) - Participant

• Continuous Gravitational Waves and Neutron Stars Workshop, 2024 (Hannover, GER) – Speaker

• SPINS-UK 2023 (Oxford, UK) - Session Chair, Speaker

• GOTO Meeting 2023 (Warwick, UK) - Speaker

• European Astronomical Society 2023 (Kraków, PL) - Session Host (Sci-Art), Co-Organiser (Early Career Researcher Session)

• National Astronomy Meeting 2023 (Cardiff, UK) - Session Host (Sci-Art), Co-Organiser (Early Career Researcher Session) and Speaker

• GWPAW (Melbourne, AUS), 2022 – Poster Presenter

• SPINS-UK 2022 (Manchester, UK) - Participant

• National Astronomy Meeting 2022 (Warwick, UK) - Session Host (Sci-Art), Co-Organiser (Early Career Researcher Session) and Speaker

• National Astronomy Meeting 2021 (Bath, UK) - Poster Presenter

• European Astronomical Society 2021 (Virtual – Leiden, NL) – Speaker (x2)

• European Astronomical Society 2020 (Virtual – Leiden, NL) – Poster Presenter (x3)

• Yamada Conference LXXI: Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Gravitational Wave Era, 2019 (Yokohama, JP) – Poster Presenter [Proceedings Available]

• MMGW/YITP: Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era, 2019 (Kyoto, JP) – Speaker, Poster Presenter

• Royal Astronomical Society Meeting, 2019 (London, UK) - Poster Presenter

• National Astronomy Meeting 2019 (Lancaster, UK) - Speaker

• BritGrav 2019 (Durham, UK) - Speaker

• ASTERICS: The New Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Conference, 2019 (Groningen, NL) – Poster Presenter [Proceedings Available]

• NBIA&DARK Post-graduate Summer School, 2018 (Copenhagen, DK) - Speaker

• National Astronomy Meeting/EWASS 2018 (Liverpool, UK) – Speaker

• National Astronomy Meeting 2017 (Hull, UK) - Speaker

• Supervision, 2023-Present – Supervisor of Masters students (3 total)

• Citizen Science, 2023-Present – EMU Zoo (Backend Developer)

• Arts and STEM Workshop (Manchester, UK), 2024  – Host, The University of Manchester

• Interact 2024 (Newcastle, UK) – Market Stall (Sci-Art Communication) Organiser, Participant

• Radio Shows, 2024 – All FM Interviewee, Manchester

• Student Computer Science Hackathon, 2024 (Manchester, UK) – Research Advisor, Panellist Judge

• Science Art Communication Lecture, 2022, 2023, 2024 (Leicester, UK) - Speaker, University of Leicester

• Graphene Hackathon 2023 - Participant, Best Presentation Prize Winner, The University of Manchester

• European Astronomical Society 2023 (Kraków, Poland) - Session Host (Sci-Art), Co-Organiser (Early Career Researcher Session)

• National Astronomy Meeting 2023 (Cardiff, UK) - Session Host (Sci-Art), Co-Organiser (Early Career Researcher Session) and Speaker

• RAS Reach (Virtual – Glasgow, UK), 2023 - Speaker

• Primary School Science Communicator, 2022 - Guest Speaker, Manchester City

• Data Study Group, The Alan Turing Institute, 2019 (London, UK) - Participant