STELLAR NURSERY - Key Persons
Adam Lockhart is a Lecturer in Media Art and Archives at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee. He is a specialist in the preservation, restoration and re-exhibition of time based media, both from practical and theoretical perspectives. He has has worked on numerous funded research projects on media art where he has contributed to many publications and curated exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He is also a musician and media artist.
Dr Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar is a Reader at the University of Dundee and Physics Public Engagement Officer. She is also the SUPA Theme Leader for Astronomy & Space Science. She has worked in Spain, the USA, Germany, and, since 2013, the UK. She works with multiwavelength data from ground- and space-based telescopes to study the formation of stars and planets, in particular, using time-resolved observations to reveal what happens in the innermost regions around young stars, beyond what can be directly imaged. She is also the PI of the North-PHASE project, running at the Javalambre Observatory since February 2023.
Dr Justyn Campbell-White is the Post Doctoral Researcher on the STFC funded Planet Disc Connection project. He started this position in 2019, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Kent. Justyn is working on developing the STAR-MELT analysis software that will facilitate the research project. Justyn has now moved to ESO in Germany, but he is still collaborating with us.
Dr Scott Gregory is a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Dundee. He is an expert on stellar magnetic fields, particularly in young, pre-main sequence stars, and has previously worked on 3D models of magnetospheric accretion onto young stars using magnetic fields with an observed degree of complexity derived directly from magnetic maps obtained from Zeeman-Doppler imaging studies.
Dr Soko Matsumura is a theoretical astrophysicist, and her research primarily focuses on formation, evolution, and dynamics of planetary systems. She uses both numerical and analytical techniques to study problems that are often motivated by recent observations. In particular, she is interested in investigating the origins of orbital architecture of planetary systems, and the imprints of past orbital evolution of planetary systems on the observed systems. She is also interested in the physical processes that shape the circumstellar disks and the debris disks.
Ruhee Kahar is a PhD student working on intermediate-mass variable young stars.