Welcome to the Radio Cosmology research group

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We are the Radio Cosmology research group at Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy led by Prof Jonathan Pritchard.

Our mission is the application of radio observations for cosmology.

Our current focus is the use of the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen as a probe of the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn. We work to develop improved models of the physics of this period and to develop inference and machine learning techiques that can learn this physics from observations. To this end, we are engaged in preparation work for the Square Kilometre Array, data analysis of NenuFAR, and working with the REACH experiment.

We are excited for the opportunities for Bayesian inference and machine learning in dealing with large data sets.

The group moved to MPIfR from Imperial College London in 2025 and is still partly based at Imperial. We also have close links with University of Bonn and the Dynaverse Excellence Cluster.