Academic staff
Prof. John Hearnshaw
- Stellar astrophysics
- Radial-velocity variables.
- Stellar radial velocities.
- Spectroscopy of late-type stars.
- Astronomical spectrograghs.
- The history of astrophysics.
- Active chromosphere stars.
Associate Prof. Peter Cottrell
- Stellar astrophysics
- Spectroscopic and photometric analyses of chemically peculiar stars.
- Stellar pulsations.
- Stellar abundances.
- Astronomical instrumentation development: Adaptive Optics; High resolution spectrograph design.
- SALT.
- Cepheid variables
- R Coronae Borealis stars, RV Tauri stars
Dr Michael Albrow
- Stellar pulsation and pulsating variable stars.
- Stellar atmospheres, post-asymptotic giant branch stars and the late stages of stellar evolution.
- Gravitational microlensing and the search for extra-solar planets.
- High resolution spectroscopy.
- Radial velocities.
- Chemical abundances.
- SALT.
Dr Karen Pollard
- The evolutionary status of RV Tauri variables.
- An investigation of post-AGB stars.
- PLANET: Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork