CV
Work Experience
April 2024 - Present » Research Fellow in Extragalactic Astronomy, University of Sussex, UK
October 2021 - February 2024 » DAWN Postdoctoral Fellow, Cosmic Dawn Center at DTU, Denmark
Education
September 2017 - September 2021 » PhD in Astronomy, University of Sussex, UK
September 2015 - July 2017 » MSc. Research in Astronomy and Cosmology, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
October 2010 - July 2014 » Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Engineering Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala, India
Selected Publications
- Stellar photoionisation modelling in Synthesizer
Aswin P. Vijayan, Stephen M. Wilkins, Sophie L. Newman, Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Sabrina Berger, Thomas Harvey, Jack C. Turner, 2026, arXiv:2607.27467 - The evolution of galaxy dust scaling relations in the Colibre simulations
Aswin P. Vijayan, James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Andrea Gebek, Nick Andreadis, Maarten Baes, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Evgenii Chaikin, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Huško, Robert J. McGibbon, Alexander J. Richings, Matthieu Schaller, 2026, arXiv:2607.26058 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) XXII: UV-dust spatial offsets at the Epoch of Reionisation
Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, William J. Roper, Thomas R. Greve, Hiddo Algera, Christopher C. Lovell, Steven Gillman, Bitten Gullberg, Shihong Liao, Robert M. Yates, Stephen M. Wilkins, 2026, arXiv:2605.27370 - Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables for Modern Astronomy
Will Roper, Christopher Lovell, Aswin Vijayan, Stephen Wilkins, Hollis Akins, Sabrina Berger, Connor Sant Fournier, Thomas Harvey, Kartheik Iyer, Marco Leonardi, Sophie Newman, Borja Pautasso, Ashley Perry, Louise Seeyave, Laura Sommovigo, Paurush Punyasheel, Adrien Aufan Stoffels d'Hautefort, Alex Rawlings, 2026, arXiv:2506.15811 - Synthesizer: a Software Package for Synthetic Astronomical Observables
Christopher C. Lovell*, William J. Roper*, Aswin P. Vijayan*, Stephen M. Wilkins* (* indicates equal author contribution), Sophie Newman, Louise Seeyave 2025, arXiv:2508.03888 - Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe
Aswin P. Vijayan, Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Stephen M. Wilkins, Hiddo S. B. Algera, Shihong Liao, Paurush Punyasheel, Lucie E. Rowland, Louise T. C. Seeyave, 2025, arXiv:2507.20190 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) XVI: Size evolution of massive dusty galaxies at cosmic dawn from the ultraviolet to infrared
Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, Thomas R. Greve, William J. Roper, Hiddo Algera, Steven Gillman, Bitten Gullberg, Dimitrios Irodotou, Christopher C. Lovell, Louise T. C. Seeyave, Peter A. Thomas, Stephen M. Wilkins, 2025, arXiv:2408.11037 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) XII: The consequences of star-dust geometry on galaxies in the EoR
Aswin P. Vijayan, Peter A. Thomas, Christopher C. Lovell, Stephen M. Wilkins, Thomas R. Greve, Dimitrios Irodotou, William J. Roper, Louise T. C. Seeyave, 2023, arXiv:2303.04177 - Sub-Millimetre Galaxies with Webb: Near-Infrared Counterparts and Multi-wavelength Morphology
S. Gillman, B. Gullberg, G. Brammer, A. Vijayan, M. Lee, D. Blánquez, M. Brinch, T. Greve, I. Jermann, S. Jin, V. Kokorev, L. Liu, G. Magdis, F. Rizzo, F. Valentino, 2023, arXiv:2303.17246 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) V: The redshift frontier
Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Dimitrios Irodotou, Joseph Caruana, Louise T. C. Seeyave, Jussi K. Kuusisto, Peter A. Thomas, Shedeur A. K. Parris, 2022, arXiv:2204.09431 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) IV: The size evolution of galaxies at z≥5
William J. Roper, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan, Madeline A. Marshall, Dimitrios Irodotou, Jussi K. Kuusisto, Peter A. Thomas, Stephen M. Wilkins, 2022, arXiv:2203.12627 - First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (Flares) III: The properties of massive dusty galaxies at cosmic dawn
Aswin P. Vijayan, Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Peter A. Thomas, Peter Camps, Maarten Baes, James Trayford, Jussi Kuusisto, William J. Roper, 2021, arXiv:2108.00830 - First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (Flares) - II: The photometric properties of high-redshift galaxies
Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell, Stephen M. Wilkins, Peter A. Thomas, David J. Barnes, Dimitrios Irodotou, Jussi Kuusisto, Will Roper, 2021, arXiv:2008.06057 - First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (Flares) - I. Environmental dependence of high-redshift galaxy evolution
Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan, Peter A. Thomas, Stephen M. Wilkins, David J. Barnes, Dimitrios Irodotou, Will Roper, 2021, arXiv:2004.07283 -
Detailed dust modelling in the L-Galaxies semi-analytic model of galaxy formation
Aswin P. Vijayan, Scott J. Clay, Peter A. Thomas, Robert M. Yates, Stephen M. Wilkins, Bruno M. Henriques, 2019, arXiv:1904.02196
You can find a full list of my publications here
Teaching & Other Work Experience
Jan 2025 - May 2025 » Lecturer for the course Astrophysical Processes, University of Sussex, UK.
Sep 2023 - May 2024 » Supervision of Paurush Punyasheel, MSc student, BITS-Pilani, Goa, India.
Feb - June 2022 » Co-supervision of Søren Staal, BSc student, DTU-Space, Denmark.
Mar-Nov 2020 » Work Placement, with Kenya Red Cross Society, Kenya.
Oct-Apr 2019/20 » Co-supervision of Hamish Garnett, Mphys student, University of Sussex, UK.
Oct-Apr 2020/21 » Co-supervision of Hamish Garnett, Mphys student, University of Sussex, UK.
2018-2020 » Associate Tutor, MPS, University of Sussex.
You can also find a detailed pdf version of my CV