Dr. Richard J. (G.) Britto

Research Fellow

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3456-2362

Department of Physics / Astrophysics Group

University of the Free State

Bloemfontein, South Africa

contact:   dr.richard.britto @ gmail ...

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French teaching qualification for a position of Assistant Professor in disciplines till end 2024:

• “elementary constituents” (French section CNU 29)

• “astrophysics” (French section CNU 34)

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Research expertise:

• Active Galactic Nuclei and blazars:

  • analysis of gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT (Postdoctoral member of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration);

  • data reduction from optical telescopes (including spectropolarimetry with the 10-m Southern African Large Telescope [SALT]);

  • modelling of particles and photons interactions in the time and spectral domain.

• Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy using the atmospheric Cherenkov technique (data analysis and Monte Carlo simulations – former member of the HIGRO/HAGAR and CELESTE Collaborations);

• Direct search for dark matter with superheated droplet detectors – work on calibration data sets (former member of the PICASSO collaboration).