About me

I am a postdoctoral research associate in astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh, studying exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres through direct imaging in the group of Beth Biller. I am particularly interested in understanding the variability of these substellar objects, and what this information can tell us about their atmospheres and evolution.

I completed my PhD at the Anton Pannekoek Institute of the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. My advisor was Jayne Birkby at the University of Oxford, who leads the exoZoo research group. My co-advisor was Matthew Kenworthy at Leiden Observatory. Before I began my PhD, I completed an MPhys degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. For my master’s thesis, I worked in the research group of Sasha Hinkley, specialising in the field of direct exoplanet imaging.

A recent version of my curriculum vitae can be found here (January 2024). Feel free to contact me at ben.sutlieff@roe.ac.uk.

This page was last updated in November 2024.