The Lindsay Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship awarded jointly by AOP and our sister organisation in Dublin – DIAS, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies to support a jointly supervised PhD student. The scholarship is named in honour of Eric Lindsay, the seventh Director of Armagh Observatory and the founder of the Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard (ADH) telescope that was built at Boyden Observatory in South Africa in 1950. The scholarship alternates between AOP and DIAS, with the student enrolled in a university that is a member of the Astronomical Society of Ireland. It is supported through the Astronomical Observatories of Ireland partnership.
| Name | Start Year | Supervisors | Location | University | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Moraghan | 2004 | Michael Smith (Armagh) | Armagh | Trinity, Dublin | The propagation of jets in astrophysical environments |
| Grainne Costigan | 2009 | Jorick Vink (Armagh) | DIAS | Queen's Belfast | Accretion variability in T Tauri stars |
| Erin Higgins | 2016 | Jorick Vink (Armagh) Jonathan Mackey (DIAS) | Armagh | Queen's Belfast | Massive stars in low metallicity environments |
| Jeremy Rigney | 2020 | Peter Gallagher (DIAS) Gerry Doyle (Armagh) Gavin Ramsay (Armagh) | DIAS | Queen's Belfast | Multi-wavelength observations of flaring activity in the sun and M dwarf stars |
| Letizia Vincetti | 2024 | Peter Gallagher (DIAS) Gavin Ramsay (Armagh) Evan Keane (Trinity) | TCD / Armagh | Trinity, Dublin | Characterising transients at optical and radio wavelengths |
