I am a Professor of Astrophysics in
the Astrophysics Research Centre
of the School
of
Maths
and
Physics
at Queen's
University
Belfast. I am a previous holder of a European
Young
Investigator
(EURYI) Award and PPARC Advanced Fellowship. My previous positions
were at the Institute
of
Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on
La Palma. A CV can be found
here.
My group works on supernovae
and the deaths of massive
stars. We are involved in two large international projects
to study supernovae and the transient Universe. We are partners
in the Pan-STARRS
project
to scientifically exploit the 3.5
year survey of the PS1
Science consortium. We are also involved in the ESO
NTT
Large
Programme
"Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields"
, which is run together with our VLT ToO Progamme to discover the
progenitors of core-collapse supernovae.
For the last decade I have been searching for the progenitors
core-collapse supernovae in images of galaxies taken before explosion,
much like the one shown above, that I took with the Hubble Space
Telescope. The latest results of this work have been published in Smartt,
Eldridge, Crockett & Maund (2009). My review article on this
topic for the Annual Review of
Astronomy and Astrophysics,
be accessed here : "Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae",
S.J. Smartt, 2009, ARA&A, 47, 63
Astrophysics Research Centre
School of Mathematics and Physics
Queen's University Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland UK
Tel (direct) +44 2890 971245
Tel (recept.) +44 2890 973941
Email:S.Smartt_AT_qub_ac_uk
Directions to my office : 1st floor of main Physics Building, Office
F013
