Dr. Alison Mitchell

since October 2021 – Junior research group leader at ECAP, FAU
2021 – Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich
2018 – 2020 – Postdoctoral researcher at University of Zurich
2016 – 2018 Assistant Project Scientist for CTAO, gGmbH (67%)
2016 – 2018 Postdoctoral researcher at MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (33%)

2013 – 2016 PhD from the University of Heidelberg, IMPRS-HD, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics: Dissertation

2008 – 2013 Undergraduate studies at the University of Warwick, UK

• Gamma-ray Astronomy : with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes & Particle Detectors
• Extensive Air Showers : properties of muons
• Pulsar Wind Nebulae & Pulsar Halos
• Galactic Novae
• Gamma-ray data analysis and calibration techniques

• H.E.S.S. Collaboration (see “Author contributions” under Acknowledgements) Time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi, Science, 376, 77-80 (2022)
• Olivera-Nieto, L.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; Bernlöhr, K.; Hinton, J.A. Muons as a tool for background rejection in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope arrays, EPJC, 81, 1101 (2021)
• Mitchell, A. M. W. Status of Ground-based and Galactic Gamma-ray Astronomy , PoS (ICRC2021) 046
• Collins, T.; Rowell, G.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; Voisin, F.; Fukui, S.; Sano, H.; Alsulami, R.; Einecke, S. Explaining the extended GeV emission adjacent to HESS J1825-137, MNRAS, 504, 1840-1853 (2021)
• Mitchell, A.M.W.; Rowell, G.P.; Celli, S.; Einecke, S. Using Interstellar Clouds to Search for Galactic PeVatrons: Gamma-ray Signatures from Supernova Remnants, MNRAS, 503, 3522-3539 (2021)
• Baumgartner, S.; Bernardini, M.; Canivete Cuissa, J. R.; de Laroussilhe, H.; Mitchell, A. M. W.; Neuenschwander, B. A.; Saha, P.; Schaeffer, T.; Soyuer, D.; Zwick, L. Towards a Polarisation Prediction for LISA via Intensity Interferometry, MNRAS, 498, 4577-4589 (2020)
• Principe, G.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; Caroff, S.; Hinton, J.A.; Parsons, R.D.; Funk, S. Energy dependent morphology of the pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825-137 with Fermi-LAT , A&A, 640, A76 (2020)
• Giacinti, G.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; López-Coto, R.; Joshi, V.; Parsons, R.D.; Hinton, J.A. On the TeV Halo Fraction in gamma-ray bright Pulsar Wind Nebulae , A&A, 636, A113 (2020)
• Gaug, M.; Fegan, S.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; Maccarone, M.C.; Mineo, T.; Okumura, A. Using muon rings for the calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array: A systematic review of the method and its potential accuracy ApJ Supplement Series, 243, 11 (2019)
• Mitchell, A.M.W.; Dembinski, H.P.; Parsons, R.D. Potential for measuring the longitudinal and lateral profile of muons in TeV air showers with IACTs, Astropart. Phys., 111, 23-34 (2019)
• Araya, M.; Mitchell, A.M.W.; Parsons, R.D. Revealing a new region of gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of HESS J1825-137, MNRAS, 485, 1001-1007 (2019)
• H.E.S.S. Collaboration (corresponding authors: Mitchell, A.M.W.; Caroff, S.) Particle transport within the pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825-137, A&A, 621, A116 (2019)
  “Highlight” paper of the A&A journal
• Mitchell, A.M.W.; Parsons, R.D.; Hofmann, W.; Bernlöhr, K. Cross calibration of telescope optical throughput efficiencies using reconstructed shower energies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, Astropart. Phys., 75, 1 (2016)