E-mail: rgill@cita.utoronto.ca

Phone: 416 385 2855

I'm a postdoc at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA). Before this, I was at the University of British Columbia where I got my PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Jeremy Heyl.

My research interests include:

• GRB and AGN jets: Spectral modeling of jets, radiative transfer, kinetic simulations, jet geometry, jet composition, high energy processes
• Neutron stars: Magnetar giant flares, population synthesis, cooling of isolated NSs
• Relativistic plasmas: Plasma waves, mode coupling to radiation, turbulence, magnetic reconnection
• Axions: Constraints on axion properties from polarization measurements, and from Blazar physics

My collaborators include Dr. Jeremy Heyl, Dr. Chris Thompson.