more questions than answers
research
Press releases
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
Group meetings
Currently every Monday, 1pm, in room 330.