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Name Yik Ki Ma
Occupation Astrophysicist
Email ykma@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Phone +49 228 525 314
Url https://jackieykma.github.io

Work

  • 2024.10 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
    Full time researcher working on the delivery of the MMGPS survey, as well as the polarimetric aspects of the MeerKAT+ commissioning.
    • MMGPS
  • 2020.10 - 2024.09
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Australian National University
    Full time researcher focusing on the ASKAP surveys of GASKAP-HI and POSSUM. Hosted by the MPIfR in Bonn, Germany until the end of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • GASKAP-HI
    • POSSUM
  • 2020.01 - 2020.09
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
    Responsible for the observation planning and the initial development of the imaging pipeline for the MMGPS-L survey.
    • MMGPS-L

Education

  • 2015.10 - 2019.12
    PhD (Dr. rer. nat)
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
    New Insights into the Milky Way Magnetic Fields through Radio Broadband Spectro-polarimetry
  • 2013.09 - 2015.09
    MPhil in Astrophysics
    The University of Hong Kong
    Radio Polarisation Study of the Snail Pulsar Wind Nebula in Supernova Remnant G327.1-1.1
  • 2010.09 - 2013.08
    BSc in Astronomy & Physics (two majors)
    The University of Hong Kong

Awards

  • 2022
    Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Education
    College of Science, Australian National University
    Award for excellence in supervision of research student
  • 2018
    Travel Grant
    The International Astronomical Union
    Travel award for the attendance of the XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (340€)
  • 2016
    Honours Branch for PhD Students
    Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy
    Distinguished scholarship awarded to outstanding PhD students (7,200€ scholarship + 1,000€ research fund)

Languages

Cantonese
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Japanese
Basic
German
Basic