People
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Geert Barentsen (PDRA) Tel. 4603 E-mail. G.Barentsen Personal Webpage |
Galactic plane star formation; Dust extinction mapping; Bayesian methods; Meteoroid streams. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr John Barnes (Research Fellow) Tel. 4603 E-mail. J.R.Barnes Personal Webpage |
Late-type stars; Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Nicola Brassington (Research Fellow) Tel. 6079 E-mail. N.Brassington Personal Webpage |
Galaxy formation and evolution; X-ray emission from normal galaxies. |
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. 6078 E-mail. B.Burningham Personal Webpage |
Brown dwarfs; Star Formation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Silvia Catalan (Marie-Curie Fellow) Tel. 4603 E-mail. S.Catalan Personal Webpage |
White dwarfs; low-mass stars. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Antonio Chrysostomou E-mail. A.Chrysostomou Tel. 1077 |
Star Formation; Circum-stellar environments; Interstellar dust. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Maria-Rosa Cioni (Humboldt Fellow) Tel. TBA 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 (Director of CAR) 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 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 Joanna Goodger Tel. 3140 E-mail. J.L.Goodger |
Interactions between radio-loud active galaxies and their environments. | publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Martin Hardcastle (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 |
| Prof. James Hough Tel. 4500 E-mail. J.H.Hough |
Polarimetry; Active Galactic Nuclei; Star formation; Interstellar dust; Astrobiology. |
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 Chiaki Kobayashi Tel. 6482 E-mail. C.Kobayashi |
Galaxy formation and evolution; chemo-dynamical simulations; supernovae and abundances. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Philip Lucas (Reader) Tel. 6070 E-mail. P.W.Lucas |
Star Formation; Brown dwarfs; Extra-solar planets; Scattering models; Instrumentation. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Bill Martin (Joint appointment with CAIR) |
Lasers; Scattering; Polarimetry. |
|
| Dr Alan McCall Tel. 6073 E-mail. A.Mccall |
Star Formation; Scattering models. |
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) Tel. 4171 E-mail. D.J.Pinfield Personal Webpage |
Brown dwarfs; Extrasolar planets. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Basmah Riaz (Research Fellow) Tel. 6078 E-mail. B.Riaz |
Brown dwarf disks; Astrochemistry; Star formation. |
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 |
Supermassive black holes; Integral-field spectroscopy; Interstellar medium; Stellar populations; Extragalactic planetary nebulae. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Dan Smith (Research Fellow) Tel. 5189 E-mail. D.J.B.Smith Personal Webpage |
Multiwavelength studies of galaxies at all redshifts Dust in galaxies. |
publications (all) |
| Dr Jason Stevens (Reader) 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 Mikko Tuomi Tel. 6078 E-mail. TBA Personal Webpage |
Extrasolar planets; Bayesian statistics; Multidata inversion techniques. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Nick Wright (RAS Research Fellow) Tel. 5251 E-mail. N.Wright5 Personal Webpage |
Star clusters and stellar dynamics; Star formation; Stellar X-ray astronomy and stellar dynamos; Stellar evolution. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
Research students
| Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Gemma Bagheri E-mail. G.Bagheri Supervisor: Napiwotzki |
The structure of the Magellanic Clouds |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Belles E-mail. P.Belles Supervisor: Brinks |
Star Formation In Extreme Environments: The Intergalactic Laboratory |
| Christopher Burton E-mail. C.S.Burton Supervisor: Jarvis |
The environmental effect on galaxy formation and evolution |
| David Bush E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Lucas |
Red Objects and young clusters in the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey |
| James Canty E-mail. J.Canty Supervisor: Lucas |
Very cool brown dwarfs and free floating planets |
| Jose Cao Orjales E-mail. J.Cao-Orjales Supervisor: Stevens |
Active galactic nuclei and their environments |
| Carlos Contreras E-mail. C.Contreras Supervisor: Lucas |
Extreme variable stars in star formation regions |
| Neil Cook E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Pinfield |
Ultracool companions to cool stars |
| Elizabeth Dodd E-mail. E.Dodd Supervisor: Jarvis |
Multi-wavelength studies of the environments of AGN |
| Alessandro Faimali E-mail. A.Faimali Supervisor: Thompson |
The history & rate of star formation in the G305 complex |
| Hywel Farnhill E-mail. H.Farnhill Supervisor: Drew |
Mapping the Galactic Plane beyond the Solar Circle |
| Tom Ferry E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Gledhill |
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 |
Planet properties and ESA's Cosmic Vision |
| Joana Gomes E-mail. J.Gomes Supervisor: Pinfield |
Binary systems and their implications for exoplanets |
| Niall Goulding E-mail. N.T.Goulding Supervisor: Barnes |
Cool star characterisation for extrasolar planet studies |
| Gulay Gürkan E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Hardcastle |
Accretion modes in radio galaxies across cosmic time |
| Jeremy Harwood E-mail. jeremy.harwood@physics.org Supervisor: Hardcastle |
Radio galaxies with next-generation radio telescopes |
| Nancy Hine E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Smith |
The reddest galaxies in the Universe |
| Alec Hirst E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Thompson |
Searching for debris disks in the SDSS & WISE surveys |
| Eleni Kalfountzou E-mail. E.Kalfountzou Supervisor: Jarvis |
The star-formation - AGN connection |
| Ged Kitchener E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Brinks |
Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies - Radio Continuum in LITTLE THINGS |
| Hugo Ledo E-mail. H.Ledo Supervisor: Sarzi |
Central Stellar Disk as Tracers of Galaxy Assembly |
| Samuel Lindsay E-mail. S.Lindsay Supervisor: Jarvis |
Cosmology with the new radio surveys |
| Gaius Manser E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Thompson |
Identifying the coldest & earliest star forming regions with Herschel and SCUBA-2 |
| Federico Marocco E-mail. F.Marocco Supervisor: Jones |
A systematic spectroscopic study of late-type brown dwarfs |
| Beatriz Mingo E-mail. B.Mingo Supervisor: Hardcastle |
X-ray studies of active galaxies |
| Mahesh Mohan E-mail. M.Mohan3 Supervisor: Gledhill |
Polarimetric investigation of debris discs |
| David Murray E-mail. D.Murray Supervisor: Burningham |
Spectroscopy for candidate ultracool subdwarfs |
| Carla Natario E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Riaz |
Astrochemistry of circumstellar disks |
| Mark Pearson E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Brassington |
The Behaviour of Cold Gas in Galaxy Mergers |
| Roberto Raddi E-mail. R.Raddi1 Supervisor: Drew |
A search for isolated young stars and star forming regions |
| John Robinson E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Wright |
Modelling the proplyd-like objects in Cyg OB2 |
| John Sharkey E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Ryan |
The search for halo common-proper-motion stars |
| Liz Sibbons E-mail. L.Sibbons1 Supervisor: Ryan |
The metallicity distribution in the NGC 6822 galaxy and the calibration of the C/M ratio |
| Leigh Smith E-mail. L.Smith10 Supervisor: Jones |
Infrared Proper Motion Survey |
| Michael Smith E-mail. M.Smith10 Supervisor: J Drew |
Massive stars in Galactic Plane H-alpha surveys |
| Brigitta Sipocz E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Pinfield |
Searching for M dwarf transits |
| Philip Taylor E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Kobayashi |
Chemo-dynamical simulations with AGN feedback |
| Hanifa Teimourian E-mail. H.Teimourian Supervisor: Jarvis |
Searching for radio-loud AGN in the epoch of reionization |
| Lientjie de Villiers E-mail. H.de-Villiers Supervisor: Thompson |
3D object extraction from astronomical spectral line datacubes |
| Alex Yip E-mail. TBA Supervisor: Pinfield |
Brown dwarfs and ejected planets |
| Zenghua Zhang E-mail. Z.Zhang7 Supervisor: Pinfield |
Discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs in large scale surveys |
Emeritus Fellows
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. David Aitken | Star Formation; Interstellar dust; Polarization mechanisms; Galactic centre. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Prof. Derek McNally | Stellar Dynamics; Astronomy Education. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
Visiting Scientists
| Name | Research Interests | Publications |
| Dr Andrew Robinson (Rochester Inst. Technology) |
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) - Unified Theories. | 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 |
| 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 Maria-Cruz Gálvez-Ortiz (Marie-Curie Fellow) |
Chromospheric activity; Binary stars; Low mass stars and objects. |
publications (all) publications (refereed) preprints |
| Dr Matt Jarvis (University of Oxford) |
Observational constraints on galaxy formation and evolution; Active galaxies; Future radio telescopes; Observational cosmology. |
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 |