About Me

Outside of academia, I hold a second degree black belt in Goju Ryu Karate Do. I also enjoy playing football, golf, pool, squash, badminton and table tennis. As well as this, I love to read, play board games and the keyboard, learn languages (mainly German and Malayalam at the moment) and travel to different parts of the world to experience new cultures!

Myself standing in a river within a rural area of Kerala, India.
'STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2017' attendees photograph (including myself) in front of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Manchester, UK.

'STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2017' attendees photograph in front of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Manchester, UK.

Myself standing in front of the iconic Buddhist Temple, Kiyomizu-dera, in Kyoto, Japan.

Visiting the iconic Buddhist Temple, Kiyomizu-dera, in Kyoto, Japan.

Myself within the cockpit of a Piper PA-38 Tomahawk during a flying lesson.

Flying lesson in a Piper PA-38 Tomahawk.

Myself standing in front of my research poster during the conference ‘The extragalactic explosive Universe: the new era of transient surveys and data-driven discovery’ in ESO-HQ, Garching near Munich, Germany.

Standing in front of my research poster during the conference ‘The extragalactic explosive Universe: the new era of transient surveys and data-driven discovery’ in ESO-HQ, Garching near Munich, Germany.

Myself presenting a contributed talk during the 'Cataclysmic Variables and Related Systems as Probes of Accretion, Binary Evolution and Thermonuclear Explosions' session at COSPAR 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Presenting a contributed talk during the 'Cataclysmic Variables and Related Systems as Probes of Accretion, Binary Evolution and Thermonuclear Explosions' session at COSPAR 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Myself putting on a green during a game of golf at a local golf course in my home city of Liverpool.

Playing golf at a local golf course in my home city of Liverpool.

Myself standing with a group of other attendees within the ancient walls of the Temple of Segesta in Sicily, Italy, during 'The Golden Age of CVs and Related Objects VI' workshop.

Visiting the Temple of Segesta in Sicily, Italy, during 'The Golden Age of CVs and Related Objects VI' workshop.

Myself speaking with three collaborators during a coffee break at the conference 'Symbiotic stars, weird novae, and related embarrassing binaries' in Prague, Czechia.

Speaking with collaborators at the conference 'Symbiotic stars, weird novae, and related embarrassing binaries' in Prague, Czechia.

Image credit: Thomas Petit

Myself standing in front of the beautiful Eibsee lake in the Bavarian Alps, Germany.

Visiting the beautiful Eibsee lake in the Bavarian Alps, Germany.

'Symbiotic stars, weird novae, and related embarrassing binaries' conference attendees photograph (including myself) in front of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague, Czechia.

'Symbiotic stars, weird novae, and related embarrassing binaries' conference attendees photograph in front of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague, Czechia.

Image credit: Thomas Petit

Myself hiking in the Alps on New Year's Day in Malbun, Liechtenstein.

Hiking in the Alps on New Year's Day in Malbun, Liechtenstein.

Myself standing next to the Arabian Sea on Bekal Beach in Kerala, India.

Standing next to the Arabian Sea on Bekal Beach in Kerala, India.

Contact

Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Astronomisches Institut
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Sternwartstraße 7
96049 Bamberg
Germany

Email: michael.healy-kalesh@fau.de or M.W.HealyKalesh@ljmu.ac.uk

Landscape photograph of Eibsee lake with the backdrop of the Bavarian Alps in Germany.