About

I am an Information Developer in the Architecture Technology Group at Arm. I also completed a PhD in astrophysics in 2025. My thesis involved searching for continuous gravitational waves from pulsars. When I’m not studying or working, I enjoy caving, hiking and climbing.

Work Experience

• Arm
  • Information Developer
    • Sept 2025 - Present
  • Graduate Information Developer
    • Jan 2025 – Sept 2025
    • Rotated for 6 months as an engineer in the machine readable specification team
  • Intern
    • April 2023 - Jan 2025

Education

• PhD in Astrophysics at Lancaster University
  • 2020 – 2025
• MPhys Physics with Astrophysics at University of Exeter
  • 2016 – 2020
  • 1st Class (Hons)

Research Experience

• Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Pulsars
  • PhD project
  • Oct 2020 – July 2025
  • Lancaster University
• Modelling Interacting Galaxies
  • MPhys project
  • Jan 2019 – June 2020
  • University of Exeter
• Direct Detection of Solar Angular Momentum Loss with the Wind Spacecraft
  • Summer internship with AWESoME Stars
  • June 2019 – Sept 2019
  • University of Exeter
• Project Perchlorate
  • Exeter iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machines) 2018
  • June 2018 – Oct 2018
  • University of Exeter

Publications

Hewitt, Amy L (2025). “PhD Thesis: Searching for continuous gravitational waves from isolated pulsars”. [Link]

Hewitt, Amy L et al. (2025). “Recovering Pulsar Braking Index from a Population of Millisecond Pulsars”. In The Astrophysical Journal. [Link]

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. (2025). “Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run”. In The Astrophysical Journal. [Link]

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. (2021). “Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs”. In: The Astrophysical Journal. [Link]

Finley, Adam J. et al. (2019). “Direct Detection of Solar Angular Momentum Loss with the Wind Spacecraft”. In: The Astrophysical Journal. [Link]