People in the Centre for Astrophysics Research
Telephone numbers: +44 1707 28nnnn, where the nnnn is shown after the staff names below.
Email addresses: add @herts.ac.uk to the email addresses given below.
Our fax number is +44 1707 284514.
| Name and contact details | Main research interests |
|---|---|
| Dr John Atkinson (System Administrator) Tel. 6358 email: J.Atkinson | Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei; Young Stellar Objects and their Environments. |
| Dr Geert Barentsen (Research Fellow) Tel. 4603 email: G.Barentsen | Optical Galactic Plane Surveys; Young star clusters. |
| Dr John Barnes (Research Fellow) Tel. 4603 email: J.R.Barnes | Late-type stars; Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
| Dr Nicola Brassington (Research Fellow) Tel. 6079 email: N.Brassington | Galaxy formation and evolution; X-ray emission from normal galaxies. |
| Prof. Elias Brinks Tel. 6072 email: E.Brinks | Nearby galaxies; Interstellar medium; Interacting galaxies and galactic dynamics. |
| Dr. Ben Burningham (Research Fellow) Tel. 6078 email: B.Burningham | Brown dwarfs; Star Formation. |
| Dr Antonio Chrysostomou (Reader) Tel. 1077 email: A.Chrysostomou | Star Formation; Circum-stellar environments; Interstellar dust. |
| Dr Maria-Rosa Cioni (Humboldt Fellow) email: M.Cioni | Formation and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds; Resolved Stellar Populations: evolved, obscured and variable stars; Morphology, age and metallicity gradients of galaxies in the Local Volume. |
| (Associate Dean) Tel. 1362 email: J.L.Collett | Galaxy dynamics; Theoretical astrophysics. |
| Dr Kristen Coppin (Senior Lecturer) Tel. 8646 email: K.Coppin | Galaxy formation and evolution; High-redshift luminous star-forming galaxies; Star-formation - black hole connection at high-redshift. |
| (Director of CAR) Tel. 6576 email: J.Drew | The Milky Way in H-alpha; Star formation and evolution; Accretion disk winds; Numerical radiation transfer. |
| Dr Jim Geach Tel. 1065 email: J.Geach | Galaxy formation and evolution |
| Dr Andreas Georgiou (Senior Research Fellow) Tel. 9337 email: A.Georgiou | General Relativity; Relativistic Astrophysics; Exact solutions of the Einstein and Einstein - Maxwell field equations; Relativistic Plasmas. |
| Dr Tim Gledhill (Reader) Tel. 4601 email: T.Gledhill | Star Formation; Post-AGB stars; Scattering models. |
| Prof. Martin Hardcastle Tel. 6409 email: M.J.Hardcastle | Active galactic nuclei; Astrophysical jets; X-ray emission from groups and clusters of galaxies. |
| Prof. James Hough Tel. 4500 email: J.H.Hough | Polarimetry; Active Galactic Nuclei; Star formation; Interstellar dust; Astrobiology. |
| Prof. Hugh Jones Tel. 4426 email: H.R.A.Jones | Extrasolar Planets; Brown dwarfs. |
| Dr Sugata Kaviraj (Senior Lecturer) Tel. 4223 email: S.Kaviraj | Early-type galaxies; Galaxy evolution. |
| Dr Chiaki Kobayashi (Senior Lecturer) Tel. 6482 email: C.Kobayashi | |
| Dr Philip Lucas (Reader) Tel. 6070 email: P.W.Lucas | Star Formation; Brown dwarfs; Extra-solar planets; Scattering models; Instrumentation. |
| Prof. Bill Martin (Joint appointment with CAIR) | Lasers; Scattering; Polarimetry. |
| Dr Alan McCall (Principal Lecturer) Tel. 6073 email: A.Mccall | Star Formation; Scattering models. |
| Dr Ralf Napiwotzki (Principal Lecturer) Tel. 6071 email: R.Napiwotzki | Late stages of stellar evolution. |
| Tel. 4171 email: D.J.Pinfield | Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
| Dr Thomas Rauscher (Reader) Tel. TBA email: T.Rauscher | Stellar Nucleosynthesis |
| Dr Basmah Riaz (Research Fellow) Tel. 6078 email: B.Riaz | Brown dwarf disks; Astrochemistry; Star formation. |
| Prof. Sean Ryan Tel. 6068 email: S.G.Ryan | Early stages of chemical evolution in the Galaxy; Origins of galaxies and their evolution; Population II/III stars. |
| Dr Marc Sarzi (STFC Advanced Fellow) Tel. 6437 email: M.Sarzi | Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei; Integral Field Spectroscopy. |
| Dr Dan Smith (Research Fellow) Tel. 5189 email: D.J.B.Smith | TBA. |
| Dr Jason Stevens (Reader) Tel. 6363 email: J.A.Stevens | Star formation at high redshifts; Dust in spiral galaxies; AGN polarisation. |
| Dr Mark Thompson (Principal Lecturer) Tel. 4605 email: M.A.Thompson | Massive star formation; Triggered star formation; Galactic plane star formation surveys; Astrochemistry |
| Dr Mikko Tuomi (Research Fellow) Tel. 6078 email: TBA Personal Webpage | Extrasolar planets; Bayesian statistics; Multidata inversion techniques. |
| Dr Nick Wright (RAS Research Fellow) Tel. 5251 email: N.Wright5 | Young star clusters; |
| Research Fellow Sarzi will become Academic Staff on completion of his Fellowship | |
| Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Ioannis Bagetakos email: I.Bagetakos Supervisor: Brinks | Shells, Bubbles and Holes: the Porosity of the Interstellar Medium in Galaxies |
| Gemma Bagheri email: G.Bagheri Supervisor: Cioni | The structure of the Magellanic Clouds |
| Christopher Burton email: C.S.Burton Supervisor: Jarvis | The environmental effect on galaxy formation and evolution |
| David Bush email: TBA Supervisor: Lucas | Red Objects and young clusters in the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey |
| James Canty email: J.Canty Supervisor: Lucas | Very cool brown dwarfs and free floating planets |
| Jose Cao Orjales email: J.Cao-Orjales Supervisor: Stevens | Active galactic nuclei and their environments |
| Carlos Contreras email: C.Contreras Supervisor: Lucas | Extreme variable stars in star formation regions |
| Neil Cook email: TBA Supervisor: Pinfield | Ultracool companions to cool stars |
| Elizabeth Dodd email: E.Dodd Supervisor: Hardcastle | Multi-wavelength studies of the environments of AGN |
| Alessandro Faimali email: A.Faimali Supervisor: Thompson | TBA |
| Hywel Farnhill email: H.Farnhill Supervisor: Drew | Mapping the Galactic Plane beyond the Solar Circle |
| Dana Ficut-Vicas email: D.Vicas Supervisor: Brinks | An analysis of Little THINGS |
| Tom Ferry email: TBA Supervisor: Gledhill | Searching for post-AGB stars in UWISH2 |
| email: K.Forde Supervisor: Gledhill | Integral field spectroscopy of post-AGB stars |
| James Frith email: J.Frith Supervisor: Pinfield | Planet properties and ESA's Cosmic Vision |
| Andy Gallagher email: A.Gallagher Supervisor: Ryan | Neutron-capture nucleosynthesis and high resolution spectroscopy of metal-deficient stars |
| Joana Gomes email: J.Gomes Supervisor: Pinfield | Binary systems and their implications for exoplanets |
| Niall Goulding email: N.T.Goulding Supervisor: Barnes | Cool star characterisation for extrasolar planet studies |
| Gulay Gürkan email: TBA Supervisor: Hardcastle | Accretion modes in radio galaxies across cosmic time |
| Jeremy Harwood email: jeremy.harwood@physics.org Supervisor: Hardcastle | X-ray jets in low-power and high-power radio sources |
| Nancy Hine email: TBA Supervisor: Smith | The reddest galaxies in the Universe |
| Eleni Kalfountzou email: E.Kalfountzou Supervisor: Stevens | The star-formation - AGN connection |
| Hugo Ledo email: H.Ledo Supervisor: Sarzi | Galaxy Transformation in Clusters |
| email: S.Lindsay2 Supervisor: Jarvis | Cosmology with the new radio surveys |
| Gaius Manser email: TBA Supervisor: Thompson | Identifying the coldest & earliest star forming regions with Herschel and SCUBA-2 |
| Federico Marocco email: F.Marocco Supervisor: Jones | TBA |
| David Murray email: D.Murray Supervisor: Burningham | Spectroscopy for candidate ultracool subdwarfs |
| Carla Natario email: C.Natario Supervisor: Chrysostomou | Star formation in filaments. |
| Mark Pearson email: TBA Supervisor: Brassington | The Behaviour of Cold Gas in Galaxy Mergers |
| Liz Sibbons email: L.Sibbons1 Supervisor: Ryan | he metallicity distribution in the NGC 6822 galaxy and the calibration of the C/M ratio |
| Leigh Smith email: L.Smith10 Supervisor: Jones | Infrared Proper Motion Survey |
| Michael Smith email: M.Smith10 Supervisor: Drew | Massive stars in Galactic Plane H-alpha surveys |
| Brigitta Sipocz email: TBA Supervisor: Pinfield | Searching for M dwarf transits |
| Philip Taylor email: TBA Supervisor: Kobayashi | Chemo-dynamical simulations with AGN feedback |
| Lientjie de Villiers email: H.de-Villiers Supervisor: Thompson | 3D object extraction from astronomical spectral line datacubes |
| Alex Yip email: TBA Supervisor: Pinfield | Brown dwarfs and ejected planets |
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. David Aitken | Star Formation; Interstellar dust; Polarization mechanisms; Galactic centre. | |
| Prof. Derek McNally | Stellar Dynamics; Astronomy Education. |
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Andrew Robinson (Rochester Inst. Technology) | Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - Unified Theories. |
| Prof. Bill Sparks (STScI) | Astrobiology; Extrasolar Planet Detection; Radio Galaxies and Jets; Mergers; Distances of Galaxies using Light Echoes. |
| Prof. Doug Whittet (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.) | Physics and Chemistry of Interstellar Dust and its role in Star Formation. |
| Dr Judith Croston University of Southampton | Astrophysical jets; X-ray emission from groups and clusters of galaxies. |
| Dr Avril Day-Jones (Universidad de Chile) | Brown Dwarfs |
| Dr Maria-Cruz Gálvez-Ortiz (Marie-Curie Fellow) | Chromospheric activity; Binary stars; Low mass stars and objects. |
| Dr Yakiv Pavlenko (Leverhulme Fellow) | Stellar atmospheres; Brown dwarfs. |
| Mr Nik Szymanek | Outreach; Astrophotography |