Postgraduate supervision
I welcome a breadth of topics under the umbrella of astrophysics, both at he PhD and MSc level. A partial list of past and present postgraduates for whom I am the Director of Studies includes:
Mary Putman (Australian National University, PhD, 2000) Dissertation: GASS: The Nature & Origin of High-Velocity Clouds 2000 Hubble Fellowship Awardee - Now Faculty at Columbia
Chris Brook (Swinburne University, PhD, 2004)
Dissertation: Chemodynamical Simulations of the Milky Way Research Fellow, IAC, Tenerife
Yeshe Fenner (Swinburne University, PhD, 2005) Dissertation: Chemical Evolution of Galactic Systems 2005 Hubble Fellowship Awardee (declined) - Program Manager, Astronomy Australia Ltd.
Stuart Gill (Swinburne University, PhD, 2005)
Dissertation: Substructure in Dark Matter Galactic Halos Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia - Richard Pratt Prize World Bank - Natural Disasters Division
Chris Thom (Swinburne University, PhD, 2006) Dissertation: Galactic Halo Tomography and Topography Research Fellow, STScI
Agostino Renda (Swinburne University, PhD, 2008) Dissertation: The Formation of Spiral Galaxy Stellar Halos Science Teacher - Copenhagen, Denmark
Tim Connors (Swinburne University, PhD, 2008)
Dissertation: High Resolutions Simulations of Galactic Cannibalism IT Manager - Bureau of Meteorology
Gemma Hughes (University of Central Lancashire, MSc, 2008)
Dissertation: Modelling the Evolution of Isotopes in the ISM of Disc Galaxies IT Manager, CSC
Owain Snaith (University of Central Lancashire, PhD, 2011) Dissertation: The Origin and Evolution of Galaxy Groups Research Fellow, Observatoire de Paris
Elisa House (University of Central Lancashire, PhD, 2011) Dissertation: Kinematical Heating of Disk Galaxies Chief Editor, Oxford University Press
Gareth Few (University of Central Lancashire, PhD, 2012)
Dissertation: Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Group Galaxies Teaching Fellow, Durham University
Maider Sancho Miranda (University of Central Lancashire, PhD, 2017) Dissertation: The Origin of the Thick Stellar Discs of Spiral Galaxies 3D Visualisation, Industry
Ben Thompson (University of Central Lancashire, PhD, 2017)
Dissertation: The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of Simulated Late-Type Galaxies Software Engineer, Industry
Daniel Atkin (University of Hull, MSc, 2019)
Dissertation: Sampling Simulated Galaxies with Observational Selection Functions Data Scientist, Industry
Leah Cox (University of Hull, PhD, 2022) Dissertation: The Age Distribution of Stellar Halos
Kate Womack (University of Hull, PhD, 2025) Dissertation: Galactic Chemical Evolution
Ryan Alexander (University of Hull, PhD, 2025) Dissertation: Inhomogeneous Galaxy Evolution Models