Professor Katherine Blundell (PROJECT LEADER) is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Professor of Astrophysics and a Science Research Fellow at St John's College Oxford. She is frequently invited to speak at conferences around the world and has published extensively on jets, their evolution and their impact on their surroundings, including a number of recent Astrophysical Journal Letters on SS433 and others on different aspects of microquasars.

Dr Fraser Clarke (INSTRUMENT SCIENTIST) has built up experience of designing, constructing and operating astronomical instruments, while working at Oxford building an integral-field spectrograph for the Palomar 200-inch telescope and while working as a support astronomer at the European Southern Observatory 8-metre VLT in Chile.

Dr John Swinbank (SOFTWARE ARCHITECT) completed a DPhil in high-redshift optical astronomy at the University of Oxford before moving to Amsterdam, where he now works as a postdoctoral researcher and software developer for the LOFAR Transients Key Project.