Thomas Baycroft/ T.D.Lee Postdoctoral Scholar
Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
S432 tbaycroft@sjtu.edu.cn https://thomasbaycroft.github.io

Educational Background

  • 2021- 2025, University of Birmingham , Ph.D
  • 2020- 2021, University of Cambridge , Master
  • 2017- 2020, University of Cambridge , Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2025-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests

  • Exoplanet Detection, Characterisation, and Populations
  • Circumbinary exoplanets
  • Radial Velocities, Astrometry, and Photometry
  • Bayesian Statistical Methods
  • Orbital Dynamics

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • T.A Baycroft, A Santerne, A.H.M.J Triaud, et al. "BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit" 2025, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541, 10.1093/mnras/staf1184
  • T.A. Baycroft, L Sairam, A.H.M.J Triaud, A.C.M Correia "Evidence for a polar circumbinary exoplanet orbiting a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs", 2025, Science Advances, 11, 10.1126/sciadv.adu0627
  • T.A Baycroft, A.H.M.J Triaud, P Kervella "New evidence about HW Vir's circumbinary planets from Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry and a reanalysis of the eclipse timing variations using nested sampling" 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 10.1093/mnras/stad2794
  • T.A Baycroft, A.H.M.J Triaud, J Faria, A.C.M Correia, M.R Standing, "Improving circumbinary planet detections by fitting their binary's apsidal precession", 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 10.1093/mnras/stad607