Supernovae and explosive transients

Prof. Kate Maguire leads a group studying explosive astrophysical phenomena such as supernovae, gravitational-wave counterparts, and exotic extra-galactic transients. She is the recipient of two European Research Council grants, SUPERSTARS (2018 - 2024) and CosmicLeap (2024 - ).

Prof. Maguire joined the academic staff at TCD in 2019 from Queen’s University Belfast, where she was a lecturer and STFC Ernest Rutherford Advanced Fellow. Prior to this she was a Marie Curie and ESO fellow at the European Southern Observatory and a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford.

She is involved in a number of large astrophysical surveys, including the leading European collaboration for follow-up of gravitational wave triggers, ENGRAVE, where she is a member of the ENGRAVE Executive Committee, the pan-European (~300 members) 4MOST instrument consortium, where she is P.I of the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES), and the ePESSTO+ collaboration, where she is a member of the Science Board and was chair of its Target and Alert Team from 2014 - 2019.