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
