Biography

After an undergraduate degree in Physics at Oxford I did a PhD at the Mullard Space Science Lab of University College London, specialising in understanding interacting binary stars. I was later a Hubble Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin before taking a Lectureship in Astrophysics at Keele.

Research and scholarship

WASP telescope I lead Keele's involvement in the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, searching for planets around other stars. We operate the WASP-South observatory, which monitors hundreds of thousands of stars looking for small dips in their lightcurves when a planet transits in front of its star. WASP-South has now found many of the brightest transiting exoplanets in the Southern hemisphere.

See personal website for further information.

Teaching

  • PHY-10010 Mechanics, Gravity and Relativity (Module leader)
  • PHY-10005 Electricity and Stellar Structure (Module leader)
  • PHY-20002 Stellar Astrophysics (Module leader)
  • PHY-30001 Cosmology (Module leader)

Publications

School address

Lennard-Jones School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Lennard-Jones Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG, UK
Phone (School Office): +44 (0)1782 733033, (Chemistry): +44 (0)1782 731693, (Forensic Science): +44 (0)1782 731694, (Physics): +44 (0)1782 733527
Email: scps@keele.ac.uk

Information for schools and colleges

Contact us about our workshops and lecture series

Programme directors

Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
Dr Tess Phillips
Tel : +44 (0)1782 733038
Email : t.r.phillips@keele.ac.uk

Dr Chris Hawes
Tel : +44 (0)1782 732820
Email : c.s.hawes@keele.ac.uk

Forensic Science and Criminology
Dr Jamie K. Pringle
Tel : +44 (0)1782 733163
Email : j.k.pringle@keele.ac.uk

Victoria Cartwright
Tel: +44 (0)1782733584
Email: v.cartwright@keele.ac.uk

Physics and Astrophysics
Dr Barry Smalley and Dr Joana Oliveira
Email : b.smalley@keele.ac.ukj.oliveira@keele.ac.uk

Admission tutors

Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
Dr Natalie Capel
Tel : +44 (0)1782 733584
Email : n.j.capel@keele.ac.uk

Forensic Science
Sue Shemilt
Email: s.shemilt@keele.ac.uk

Physics and Astrophysics
Dr Juliana Morbec
Email : physics@keele.ac.uk or j.morbec@keele.ac.uk