research

Press releases

• 5 July 2017: Milky Way could have 100 billion brown dwarfs
  
• 18 November 2016: A journey through the Universe
  
• 24 November 2014: Doors open to star factory
  
• 28 November 2013: Star light star bright
  
• 30 November 2012: Even Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets
  
• 18 October 2011: "Failed Stars" Galore
  
• 20 November 2007: How to form a miniature solar system
  
• 13 March 2007: New globular cluster in our galaxy
  

Group members

• postdoc Paula Teixeira (2018-, St Andrews): Research Fellow in Star and Planet Formation (funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council)
• PhD student Sam Pearson (2018-, St Andrews): thesis project 'Brown dwarfs in star forming regions' (funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council)
• PhD student Tatiana Pavlidou (2018-, St Andrews): thesis project 'Star formation in the Perseus cloud' (funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council)
• PhD student Inna Bozhinova (2013-2017, St Andrews): thesis project 'Time domain observations of young stars' (funded by the Science & Technology Facilities Council), finished August 2017
• PhD student Donna Rodgers-Lee (2012-2017, DIAS): thesis project 'Protoplanetary disks' (co-supervised, main supervisor Turlough Downes, Dublin), finished March 2017
• PhD student Laura Rigon (2011-2015, St Andrews): thesis project 'Multiwavelength studies of disks' (co-supervised by Peter Woitke / St Andrews and Jane Greaves / St Andrews), finished December 2015
• PhD student Paul Dawson (2010-2014, DIAS): thesis project 'Young brown dwarfs and their environment' (funded by a grant from the Science Foundation Ireland), finished April 2014
• PhD student Grainne Costigan (2009-2013, DIAS): thesis project 'Accretion variability in young stellar objects' (Lindsey scholarship, co-supervised by Jorick Vink / Armagh Observatory and Leonardo Testi / ESO Garching), finished October 2013

Research topics

• Formation of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets
• The infancy of stars: accretion, disks, and outflows
• Angular momentum as a fundamental property of stars
• Stellar and substellar atmospheres: spots, clouds, flares
• Magnetic activity, disks, and their influence on stellar rotation
• The inventory of open clusters and star forming regions
• Variability as a tool to study stellar properties
• History and philosophy of astronomy

see list of publications and other writings

Some sort of research

• Co-Founder of the WETI Institute

Group meetings

Currently every Monday, 1pm, in room 330.