I am a European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award holder in the Astrophysics Research Centre of the School of Maths and Physics at Queen's University Belfast. The EURYI awards are 1.2 million Euro 5-year fellowships awarded by the European Science Foundation for young scientists to establish their own research teams in European research centres. I previously worked in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma.  A brief CV can be found here.

My group works on supernovae and the deaths of massive stars. We are partners in the Pan-STARRS project to scientifically exploit the 3.5 year survey of the PS1 Science consortium.

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 here that I took with the Hubble Space Telescope. The latest results of this work have been published in Smartt, Eldridge, Crockett & Maund (2009).

I was invited to write a review article on this topic for the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The published article can 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