Rene Breton
Lecturer
Astrophysics
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
2014 - present: Lecturer in Astrophysics, The University of Manchester 2014 - 2016: Marie Curie Fellow, The University of Manchester 2013 - 2014: Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Southampton 2012 - 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton 2008 - 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto 2003 - 2009: PhD in Astrophysics, McGill University
Research Interest
My research covers on a wide variety of topics related to neutron stars, pulsars, transients and binary systems. I am mostly interested in using them as tools for fundamental physics, such as probing matter under extreme densities and testing of gravity theories.
Publications
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An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf
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Low-radio-frequency eclipses of the redback pulsar J2215+5135 observed in the image plane with LOFAR
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LOFAR MSSS: Discovery of a 2.56 Mpc giant radio galaxy associated with a disturbed galaxy group
