Researchers
Telephone numbers: +44 1707 28nnnn, where the nnnn is shown after the staff names below.
Email addresses: add [at] herts.ac.uk to the email addresses given below.
Our fax number is +44 1707 284514.
Research Staff
| Name | Main Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. James Hough (Director) Tel. 4500 E-mail. J.H.Hough |
Polarimetry; Active Galactic Nuclei; Star formation; Interstellar dust; Astrobiology. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr John Atkinson (System Administrator) Tel. 6358 E-mail. J.Atkinson |
Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei; Young Stellar Objects and their Environments. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr John Barnes (PDRA) Tel. 5162 E-mail. J.R.Barnes Personal Webpage |
Late-type stars; Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr David Bonfield (PDRA) Tel. 5179 E-mail. D.Bonfield |
Galaxy formation and evolution; Active galaxies; Photometric fitting and selection methods; Optical and near-infrared instrumentation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Elias Brinks Tel. 6072 E-mail. E.Brinks |
Nearby galaxies; Interstellar medium; Interacting galaxies and galactic dynamics. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Ben Burningham (PDRA) Tel. 5179 E-mail. B.Burningham Personal Webpage |
Brown dwarfs; Star Formation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Silvia Catalan (Marie-Curie Fellow) Tel. 5222 E-mail. S.Catalan |
White dwarfs; low-mass stars. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Antonio Chrysostomou (On secondment as Associate Director JCMT) E-mail. A.Chrysostomou Personal Webpage |
Star Formation; Circum-stellar environments; Interstellar dust. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Maria-Rosa Cioni Tel. 5189 E-mail. 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. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr James Collett Tel. 1362 E-mail. J.L.Collett Personal Webpage |
Galaxy dynamics; Theoretical astrophysics. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Janet Drew Tel. 6576 E-mail. J.Drew |
The Milky Way in H-alpha; Star formation and evolution; Accretion disk winds; Numerical radiation transfer. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Maria-Cruz Gálvez-Ortiz (Marie-Curie Fellow) Tel. 5222 E-mail. M.Galvez-Ortiz Personal Webpage |
Chromospheric activity; Binary stars; Low mass stars and objects. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Franck Genet (PDRA) Tel. 1373 E-mail. F.Genet |
Gamma-ray burst. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Andreas Georgiou (Senior Research Fellow) Tel. 9337 (int 8537) E-mail. A.Georgiou |
General Relativity; Relativistic Astrophysics; Exact solutions of the Einstein and Einstein - Maxwell field equations; Relativistic Plasmas. |
publications (ADS
list) publications (ADS refereed) non-ADS publications |
| Dr Tim Gledhill (Reader) Tel. 4601 E-mail. T.Gledhill |
Star Formation; Post-AGB stars; Scattering models. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Jonathan Granot (Reader) (Royal Society - Wolfson Research Merit Award holder) Tel. 4569 E-mail. J.Granot Personal Webpage |
High Energy Astrophysics; Gamma-Ray Bursts; Soft Gamma Repeaters; Relativistic Fluid Dynamics. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Martin Hardcastle (Royal Society Fellow & Reader) Tel. 6409 E-mail. M.J.Hardcastle Personal Webpage |
Active galactic nuclei; Astrophysical jets; X-ray emission from groups and clusters of galaxies. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Volker Heesen (PDRA) Tel. 5162 E-mail. V.Heesen Personal Webpage |
Nearby galaxies; Interstellar medium; Magnetic Fields. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Matt Jarvis (Reader) Tel. 5251 E-mail. M.J.Jarvis Personal Webpage |
Observational constraints on galaxy formation and evolution; Active galaxies; Future radio telescopes Observational cosmology. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Hugh Jones Tel. 4426 E-mail. H.R.A.Jones Personal Webpage |
Extrasolar Planets; Brown dwarfs. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Philip Lucas Tel. 6070 E-mail. P.W.Lucas |
Star Formation; Brown dwarfs; Extra-solar planets; Scattering models; Instrumentation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Alan McCall Tel. 6073 E-mail. A.Mccall |
Star Formation; Scattering models. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Brent Miszalski (PDRA) Tel. 8536 E-mail. B.Miszalski Personal Webpage |
Planetary nebulae; |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Ralf Napiwotzki Tel. 6071 E-mail. R.Napiwotzki |
Late stages of stellar evolution. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr David Pinfield (Reader and Academic Fellow) Tel. 4171 E-mail. D.J.Pinfield Personal Webpage |
Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Robert Priddey (PT Lecturer) (Visiting Research Fellow) Tel. 1372 E-mail. R.S.Priddey Personal Webpage |
Gamma-Ray Bursts; High-redshift AGN; Sub-millimetre cosmology. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Sean Ryan Tel. 6068 E-mail. S.G.Ryan Personal Webpage |
Early stages of chemical evolution in the Galaxy; Origins of galaxies and their evolution; Population II/III stars. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Marc Sarzi (STFC Advanced Fellow) Tel. 6437 E-mail. M.Sarzi Personal Webpage |
Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei; Integral Field Spectroscopy. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Jason Stevens Tel. 6363 E-mail. J.A.Stevens |
Star formation at high redshifts; Dust in spiral galaxies; AGN polarisation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Mark Thompson Tel. 4605 E-mail. M.A.Thompson |
Massive star formation; Triggered star formation; Galactic plane star formation surveys; Astrochemistry |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Douglas Weights (PDRA) Tel. 6358 E-mail. D.J.Weights |
Brown dwarfs; RoPACS. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Research Fellows Hardcastle, Jarvis, Pinfield and Sarzi become Academic Staff on completion of their Fellowships | ||
Research students
| Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Grant Allsop E-mail. G.C.W.Allsop Supervisor: Stevens |
Investigating the link between high redshift quasars and galaxy formation |
| Ioannis Bagetakos E-mail. I.Bagetakos Supervisor: Brinks |
Shells, Bubbles and Holes: the Porosity of the InterstellarMedium in Galaxies |
| Gemma Bagheri E-mail. G.Bagheri Supervisor: Cioni |
The structure of the Magellanic Clouds |
| Lewis Batchelor E-mail. L.Batchelor Supervisor: Gledhill |
Making Debris Discs |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Belles E-mail. P.Belles Supervisor: Brinks |
TBA |
| Christopher Burton E-mail. C.S.Burton Supervisor: Jarvis |
The environmental effect on galaxy formation and evolution |
| James Clarke E-mail. J.R.A.Clarke Supervisor: Pinfield |
Identifying Brown Dwarfs in 'moving groups' |
| Elizabeth Dodd E-mail. E.Dodd Supervisor: Stevens |
TBA |
| Kieran Dolling E-mail. K.J.Dolling Supervisor: Gálvez-Ortiz |
Hunting for low-mass and substellar companions to moving group members |
| Eleanor Dyke E-mail. E.Dyke2 Supervisor: Jarvis |
Tracing galaxy evolution from z=2 through to the darkages at z>7 |
| James Falder E-mail. J.T.Falder Supervisor: Stevens |
The environments of high-redshift AGN |
| Alessandro Faimali E-mail. A.Faimali Supervisor: Thompson |
TBA |
| Dana Ficut-Vicas E-mail. D.Vicas Supervisor: Brinks |
An analysis of Little THINGS |
| Kieran Forde E-mail. K.Forde Supervisor: Gledhill |
Integral field spectroscopy of post-AGB stars |
| James Frith E-mail. J.Frith Supervisor: Pinfield |
TBA |
| Andy Gallagher E-mail. A.Gallagher Supervisor: Ryan |
Neutron-capture nucleosynthesis and high resolution spectroscopy of metal-deficient stars |
| Mark Gallaway E-mail. M.J.Gallaway Supervisor: Lucas |
Low mass stars and brown dwarfs from the UKIDDS survey |
| Joana Gomes E-mail. J.Gomes Supervisor: Pinfield |
TBA |
| Joanna Goodger E-mail. J.L.Goodger Supervisor: Hardcastle |
Interactions between radio-loud active galaxies and their environments |
| Niall Goulding E-mail. N.T.Goulding Supervisor: Pinfield |
TBA |
| Peter Herbert E-mail. P.D.Herbert Supervisor: Jarvis |
Multi-wavelength studies of AGN |
| Samantha Hickey E-mail. S.Hickey Supervisor: Jarvis |
Tracing the build-up of stellar mass over the history of the Universe |
| Luke Hindson E-mail. L.Hindson Supervisor: Thompson |
A comprehensive multiwavelength study of triggered and massive star formation in the Giant HII region G305 |
| Adam Hosford E-mail. A.Hosford Supervisor: Ryan |
Precision spectroscopy of metal-poor stars |
| Ralf Kotulla E-mail. R.Kotulla Supervisor: Brinks |
Properties and evolution of galaxies in the redshift desert from a multi-wavelength photometric approach |
| Hugo Ledo E-mail. H.Ledo Supervisor: Sarzi |
Galaxy Transformation in Clusters |
| Beatriz Mingo E-mail. B.Mingo Supervisor: Hardcastle |
X-ray studies of active galaxies |
| David Murray E-mail. D.Murray Supervisor: Burningham |
Spectroscopy for candidate ultracool subdwarfs |
| Joao Neves E-mail. J.F.C.1.Neves Supervisor: Thompson |
High-Mass Star Formation in the Milky Way |
| Jamie Ownsworth E-mail. J.Ownsworth Supervisor: Hardcastle |
Radio-loud AGN impact on galaxy scales |
| Glen Parish E-mail. G.Parish Supervisor: Jarvis |
The environmental dependence of galaxy formation and evolution from optical and infrared surveys |
| Harriet Parsons E-mail. H.A.L.Parsons Supervisor: Thompson |
Getting SASSY with SCUBA-2 |
| Antonio Portas E-mail. A.M.P.Portas Supervisor: Brinks |
Where does it all end ? - Studying the edges of spiral galaxies |
| Roberto Raddi E-mail. R.Raddi1 Supervisor: Drew |
A search for isolated young stars and star forming regions |
| Tom Scott E-mail. T.C.Scott Supervisor: Brinks |
Probing evolutionary mechanisms in galaxies of nearby clusters with HI |
| Nithin Shajan E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Lucas |
TBA |
| David Shelton E-mail. D.Shelton Supervisor: Hardcastle |
The environments of powerful radio galaxies |
| Liz Sibbons E-mail. L.Sibbons1 Supervisor: Cioni |
The metallicity distribution in the NGC 6822 galaxy and the calibration of the C/M ratio |
| Manuel Silva E-mail. M.D.D.V.Silva Supervisor: Napiwotzki |
Runaway Stars |
| Brigitta Sipocz E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Pinfield |
TBA |
| Ben Tatton E-mail. B.Tatton Supervisor: Cioni |
AGB stars in the WLM galaxy |
| Hanifa Teimourian E-mail. H.Teimourian Supervisor: Jarvis |
Searching for radio-loud AGN in the epoch of reionization |
| Mark Watson E-mail. M.E.Watson Supervisor: Thompson |
Assessing the performance of sub-millimetre compact object detection algorithms |
| Simon Weston E-mail. S.1.Weston Supervisor: Napiwotzki |
The population of planetary nebulae and their central stars |
| Alice Williamson E-mail. A.M.Williamson Supervisor: Priddey |
Astronomy & Music: the Legacy of Pythagoreanism in the History of Ideas |
| Ken Winter E-mail. K.2.Winter Supervisor: Napiwotzki |
Long term variability of Wolf-Rayet stars |
| Zenghua Zhang E-mail. Z.Zhang7 Supervisor: Pinfield |
Discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs in large scale surveys |
Visiting Professors
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
| Prof. David Axon (Rochester Inst. Technology) |
Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei; Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - Unified Theories. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Johan Knapen (IAC) |
Star formation in galaxies; Galactic bars; Galaxy structure. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Bill Martin (Joint appointment with CAIR) |
Lasers; Scattering; Polarimetry. |
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| Prof. Issac Shlosman (University of Kentucky) |
Galactic Dynamics. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Bill Sparks (STScI) |
Astrobiology; Extrasolar Planet Detection; Radio Galaxies and Jets; Mergers; Distances of Galaxies using Light Echoes. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Doug Whittet (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.) |
Physics and Chemistry of Interstellar Dust and its role in Star Formation. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
Visiting Senior Research Fellows
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. David Aitken | Star Formation; Interstellar dust; Polarization mechanisms; Galactic centre. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Andy Bunker (Oxford) |
Galaxy formation and evolution; High-redshift galaxies and their stellar populations; Intervening absorption systems seen in quasar spectra. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Andrew Robinson (Rochester Inst. Technology) |
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - Unified Theories. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
Visiting Research Fellows
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Stuart Clark |
www.stuartclark.com | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Judith Croston University of Southampton |
Astrophysical jets; X-ray emission from groups and clusters of galaxies. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Bob Chapman | Gamma Ray Bursts | publications preprints |
| Dr Avril Day-Jones (Universidad de Chile) |
Brown Dwarfs | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Chen Dong (Yunnan Observatory, China) |
Brown dwarfs; Planets; Robotic telescopes. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Yakiv Pavlenko (Leverhulme Fellow) |
Stellar atmospheres; Brown dwarfs. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Mr Nik Szymanek |
Outreach; Astrophotography www.ccdland.com |
publications |
| Dr Stuart Young (Rochester Inst. Technology) |
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - Unified Theories. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |