Payton Rodman

Payton Rodman

Data Scientist and Researcher

Biography

Hi, I’m Payton!

I am a data scientist with a background in physics simulations and a love for effective data communication. I believe that the data we collect, analyse, and disseminate contains a multitude of stories based on our audience’s perceptions, lived experiences, and needs. This belief underlies my approach to presentations–and information sharing more broadly–as story-telling. I am also an avid puzzler, problem-solver, and bug finder, and am always searching for new ways to improve my coding craft.

Before moving to the UK, I studied physics and applied mathematics at the University of Tasmania in Australia, where I received my Bachelors (2017) and Honours (2018) degrees. In 2024, I was awarded my PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, supported by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

You can find a PDF copy of my CV here: Download my CV

You can also check out some of my projects below!

Interests

  • Science
  • Programming
  • Simulation
  • Data Analysis
  • Presentation
  • Succulents

Education

  • PhD in Astronomy, 2024

    University of Cambridge

  • BSc (Hons) in Physics, 2018

    University of Tasmania

  • BSc in Physics and Applied Mathematics, 2017

    University of Tasmania

Projects

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All Active Galactic Nuclei Jets Accretion Disks Simulation Data Analysis Completed Work In Progress

Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

A brief look at the first half of my PhD

Radio Jet Filament Formation in a Magnetised Medium

A brief look at the second half of my PhD

Analysing student anxiety and math performance

A personal project exploring how anxiety among social science students affects perceptions of achievement and outcomes in math

Comparing daily pressure variation across the globe

A personal project exploring worldwide pressure variation data.

Using radio lobes to measure galaxy cluster properties (Honours thesis)

A brief description of the work I did in 2018 as part of my Honours thesis at the University of Tasmania.

The spectral signature of interstellar scintillation

A project I undertook in the summer of 2016/2017 with CSIRO in Perth, WA.

Extreme scattering events

A short side-project to my work at CASS

Environment as a cause of radio source asymmetry

An analysis of AGN jet properties in different clustering environments.

Recent Publications

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Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

We present the results from a pair of high-resolution, long-timescale ($\sim10^5~{\rm GM/c^3}$), global, three-dimensional …
P E Rodman, C S Reynolds
PDF Code Project DOI
Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

Radio Galaxy Zoo: observational evidence for environment as the cause of radio source asymmetry

We investigate the role of environment on radio galaxy properties by constructing a sample of large ($\gtrsim~100$ kpc), nearby …
P E Rodman, R J Turner, S S Shabala, J K Banfield, O I Wong, H Andernach, A F Garon, A D Kapińska, R P Norris, L Rudnick
PDF Project DOI
Radio Galaxy Zoo: observational evidence for environment as the cause of radio source asymmetry