Sophie Jewell

I'm a first year DPhil student in astrophysics supervised by Dr Becky Smethurst and co-supervised by Prof Chris Lintott. I'm interested in the co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies. I'm specifically interested in the growth of SMBHs in galaxies which have never experienced a merger, and the subsequent effect on the properties of these galaxies. 

Prior to coming to Oxford, I completed my MPhys in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. In my final year project supervised by Dr Kenneth Duncan and co-supervised by Dr Adam Carnall, I studied a high-redshift radio galaxy (TN J1338-1942) using JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec IFU data, particularly investigating the properties of its host galaxy.