Pearse Murphy

You can currently find me working as a Quantitative Finance Analyst at Bank of America.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher/data scientist on the TAPAS team at the University of Galway using machine learning and earth observations to monitor the effects of climate change in crops.

Before that, I held a postdoctoral researcher position was at Observatoire de Paris where I developed a machine learning algorithm to automatically detect solar radio emission in NenuFAR observations. Check out the arxiv preprint!

I completed my PhD at Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) under the co-supervision of Prof. Peter Gallagher and Dr. Eoin Carley in 2022. My research focused on interferometric radio imaging of solar bursts using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR).

I was also involved in the development of the REALtime Transient Acquisition (REALTA) cluster for recording and processing data from the Irish LOFAR station I-LOFAR in Birr, Co. Offaly. I was once one of I-LOFAR's Chief Observers regularly monitoring the sun for radio signatures of solar activity.