Staff profile

Responsibilities within department

Research Assosciate CFAI

Teaching activity

Level 4 Optics teaching, Adaptive Optics Postgraduate Lectures

Research interests

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Centre for Advanced Instrumentation

• 2020: Astronomy Consolidated Grant 2020 2023 CfAI(£1197810.10 from Ernest Rutherford Fellowship)
• 2020: STFC-NARIT: AO Program for the Thai National Observatory(£216570.38 from Ernest Rutherford Fellowship)
• 2019: E-ELT PPRP HARMONI(£2310549.71 from Ernest Rutherford Fellowship)
• 2019: E-ELT PPRP MOSAIC(£1238917.06 from Ernest Rutherford Fellowship)
• 2019: SOLARNET: Integrating High Resolution Solar Physics(£103219.70 from Interreg (ERDF) Europe)
• 2013: Development of an Astronomical Adaptive Optics Laboratory Test Bench, known as Chinese DRAGON(£293800.00 from National University of Defense Technology, China)

Available for media contact about:

• Advanced Instrumentation:

Journal Article

• Hottinger, Philipp, Harris, Robert J., Crass, Jonathan, Dietrich, Philipp-Immanuel, Blaicher, Matthias, Bechter, Andrew, Sands, Brian, Morris, Timothy, Basden, Alastair G., Bharmal, Nazim Ali, Heidt, Jochen, Anagnos, Theodoros, Neureuther, Philip L., Glück, Martin, Power, Jennifer, Pott, Jörg-Uwe, Koos, Christian, Sawodny, Oliver & Quirrenbach, Andreas (2021). On-sky results for the integrated microlens ring tip-tilt sensor. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38(9): 2517.
• Suárez Gómez, Sergio Luis, González-Gutiérrez, Carlos, Alonso, Enrique Díez, Santos, Jesús Daniel, Rodríguez, María Luisa Sánchez, Morris, Tim, Osborn, James, Basden, Alastair, Bonavera, Laura, González, Joaquín González-Nuevo & de Cos Juez, Francisco Javier (2019). Experience with Artificial Neural Networks Applied in Multi-object Adaptive Optics. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131(1004): 108012.
• Young, Laura K., Morris, Timothy J., Saunter, Christopher D. & Smithson, Hannah E. (2018). Compact, modular and in-plane AOSLO for high-resolution retinal imaging. Biomedical Optics Express 9(9): 4275-4293.
• Martin, O., Gendron, É, Rousset, G., Gratadour, D., Vidal, F., Morris, T. J., Basden, A. G., Myers, R. M., Correia, C. M. & Henry, D. (2017). Wave-front error breakdown in laser guide star multi-object adaptive optics validated on-sky by CANARY. Astronomy & Astrophysics 598: A37.
• Young, Laura K., Hauperich, Anna K., Morris, Timothy J., Saunter, Christopher D. & Smithson, Hannah E. (2017). Recording fixational eye movements with a new AOSLO: simulation, measurement and evaluation. Journal of Vision 17(7): 34.
• Basden, A. G. & Morris, T. J. (2016). Monte-Carlo modelling of multi-object adaptive optics performance on the European Extremely Large Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 463(4): 4184-4193.
• Reeves, A. P., Morris, T. J., Myers, R. M., Bharmal, N. A. & Osborn, J. (2016). A tomographic algorithm to determine tip-tilt information from laser guide stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 459(1): 333-341.
• Harris, R. J., MacLachlan, D. G., Choudhury, D., Morris, T. J., Gendron, E., Basden, A. G., Brown, G., Allington-Smith, J. R. & Thomson, R. R. (2015). Photonic spatial reformatting of stellar light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450(1): 428-434.
• Vidal, F., Gendron, E., Rousset, G., Morris, T., Basden, A., Myers, R., Brangier, M., Chemla, F., Dipper, N., Gratadour, D., Henry, D., Hubert, Z., Longmore, A., Martin, O., Talbot, G. & Younger, E. (2014). Analysis of on-sky MOAO performance of CANARY using natural guide stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics 569: A16.
• Shepherd, H., Osborn, J., Wilson, R.W., Butterley, T., Avila, R., Dhillon, V. & Morris, T.J. (2014). Stereo-SCIDAR: optical turbulence profiling with high sensitivity using a modified SCIDAR instrument. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437(4): 3568-3577.