Projects

What Can an Asteroid Tell Us About an Ocean World? Lessons from Dinkinesh for Europa
What Can an Asteroid Tell Us About an Ocean World? Lessons from Dinkinesh for Europa

YouTube Thank you to UNSW Astrophysics for hosting me for this seminar talk on 7 January 2026! Please join us for the first AstroSeminar of 2026. We’ll be hearing from familiar face Duncan Lyster who is now a PhD candidate at Oxford.

Jan 7, 2026

Hall members support NASA mission encounter with asteroid
Hall members support NASA mission encounter with asteroid

Article Middle Common Room Vice-President Duncan Lyster and Tutorial Fellow Professor Carly Howett recently supported the Lucy mission’s encounter of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson in Boulder, USA.

May 13, 2025

BBC News: NASA mission's out of this world for PhD student
BBC News: NASA mission's out of this world for PhD student

Article A few years ago, Duncan Lyster was studying physics at school in a market town in rural Herefordshire. Today, he is in the US, working on a NASA mission to uncover the ancient secrets of the solar system.

Apr 26, 2025

Meet... Duncan Lyster
Meet... Duncan Lyster

Article Quick-fire interview with Duncan Lyster about his DPhil research in planetary physics, working on thermal models for asteroids and icy moons, and his upcoming work with the NASA Lucy Mission team.

Mar 4, 2025

scikit-learn
scikit-learn

scikit-learn is a Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy and is distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.

Oct 26, 2023

PyTorch
PyTorch

PyTorch is a Python package that provides tensor computation (like NumPy) with strong GPU acceleration.

Oct 26, 2023

Pandas
Pandas

Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures.

Oct 26, 2023