Due to the large number of enquiries, I post some advice about applying to take a PhD under my supervision here at the University of Canterbury.
I currently have as many PhD students as I am able to supervise, and cannot take any more for the forseeable future. Things may change in 2025, once 2 of my current 5 PhD students have completed, but I can make no commitments til then. In any case, I receive 70-100 enquiries for every PhD student I end up interviewing. It is impossible to keep track of all these, so until I am ready to take a further student, I am simply deleting emails with CVs that I do not have time to read.
Students interested in studying in similar areas in New Zealand might consider other potential supervisors from the New Zealand Astrostatistics and General Relativity Working Group.
This applies to the PhD only. MSc students who are not New Zealand permanent residents must pay foreign student fees, and there are no scholarships available to pay such fees. Those who have external funding should apply to do a MSc or Postgraduate Diploma in Science by course work in the first instance. Applications are through at the University of Canterbury are through our Graduate School.
The number of emails I receive is growing with time as a power law (greater than linear). Regardless of how many I have time to delete, respond to or move to other folders, my Inbox is also growing at a similar rate. A few years ago my Inbox was at 100 - 300 emails. One year ago on 22 September 2022, it was several hundred. At 22 September 2023 it was 3078, of which 2799 were received in the previous 12 months. By 17 March 2024 it was 5542, of which 4847 were received in the previous 12 months. It is no longer physically possible for me to even send a form letter to reply to all queries. Thus I apologise if you receive no reply from me.
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