I joined the astrophysics discipline of the Department of Physical Sciences at the Open University in October 2013 on a three year Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship.
I have a broad knowledge base and skillset in the area of astrophysics research including transiting exoplanets, stellar atmosphere pollution, Gaia transients, remote/robotic observatory operation and maintenance, rapid response photometry and spectroscopy. I also have extensive experience of undergraduate teaching across the sciences and disseminating recent astronomical research to the general public in an accessible and enthusiastic manner.
Research interests:
I am the lead-research scientist on the semi-robotic remote telescope facility, PIRATE based in Mallorca. I utilise this facility to identify and categorise the transiting exoplanet candidates identified by the SuperWASP survey. I also work with the Gaia satellite, as PIRATE is a follow-up facility for the photometric science alerts triggered by Gaia's data analysis pipeline.
A video detailing the research, teaching and outreach work of PIRATE presented at the 5th Gaia Science Alerts Workshop (2014) in Warsaw Poland can be found here - http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~wyrzykow/GAIA/GSAW2014/movies/JohannaJarvis.mov.
As a result of these diverse research interests I have a broad skill base covering photometry, spectroscopy and robotic telescope operation and maintenance as well as a broad knowledge base covering transiting exoplanets and the wide variety of objects flagged by the Gaia follow-up work including interacting binary stars and supernovae.