Staff Directory

For general contact details myee Contact page.

The group can be contacted via telephone, email or post. For email add @uclan.ac.uk to the listed entries below. For telephone add 01772 89; if overseas add your local international dial code and 441772 89.

For administrative and general enquiries, please contact the Departmental Office.

Professors

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
Prof. Silvia Dalla sdalla Personal 3527 LE105 Professor of Solar Physics
Prof. Don Kurtz dwkurtz 3735 LE211 Professor of Astrophysics
Prof. Cristina Popescu cpopescu Personal 3551 LE106 Professor of Astrophysics
Prof. Robert Walsh rwwalsh 4282 AB111 Professor of Solar Physics
Prof. Derek Ward-Thompson dward-thompson Personal 3829 LE007 Professor of Astrophysics, Director of Jeremiah Horrocks Institute

Readers & Lecturers

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
Dr. Sylvy Anscombe sanscombe 3544 LE305 Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Megan Argo margo 5157 LE305 Lecturer in Astronomy
Dr. Danielle Bewsher dbewsher 3271 LE104 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Kevin Bowman kbowman 3549 LE006A Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Daniel Brown dsbrown 3305 LE208 Reader in Solar Physics
Dr. Tim Cawthorne tvcawthorne Personal 3731 LE209 Senior Lecturer in Physics and Mathematics, Research Degrees Tutor
Dr. Roger Clowes rgclowes Personal 3526 LE310 Reader in Extragalactic Astrophysics
Dr. Matthew Daws MDaws Personal 2680 LE305 Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Victor Debattista vpdebattista Personal 3568 LE210 Reader in Astrophysics
Dr. Paul Freeman pgfreeman 3302 LE307 Lecturer in Physics
Dr. Monika Gamza mgamza Personal 3262 LE307 Lecturer in Physics
Dr. Barbara Hassall bjmhassall 3570 LE113 Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics. Course Leader – Astronomy Distance Learning
Dr. Imran Khan ikhan12 2376 LE006A Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Jason Kirk jmkirk 6416 LE309 Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics – Foundation Year Tutor
Dr. Serban Lepadatu slepadatu 3553 LE005 Lecturer in Physics
Dr. Paul Marston pmarston 3542 LE114 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Steve McCann smmccann 3304 LE114 Lecturer in Physics
Dr. Tim Mercer tmercer1 3161 LE005 Senior Lecturer in Physics – Course Leader for Physics
Dr. Mark Norris mnorris2 3548 LE104 Lecturer in Astrophysics
Dr. Shane O’Hehir so-hehir 3733 LE309 Lecturer in Physics, Stage 1 Tutor
Dr. Brett Patterson bapatterson 3567 LE208 Senior Lecturer in Physics.
Dr. Davide Penazzi dpenazzi 3827 LE116 Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr. Joanne Pledger jpledger 6411 LE308 Lecturer in Astrophysics
Dr. Christopher Powles cpowles 3572 LE116 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics – Course Leader
Dr. Chris Reynolds creynolds5 5160 LE114 Lecturer in Astronomy
Dr. Anne Sansom aesansom Personal 3730 LE308 Reader in Astrophysics
Dr. Joe Smerdon jsmerdon 2700 LE006 Guild Research Fellow in Physics
Dr. Aimilia Smyrli asmyrli2 3283 LE114 Lecturer in Astrophysics
Dr. Dimitris Stamatellos dstamatellos Personal 6418 LE113 Guild Research Fellow in Astrophysics
Dr. Karen Syres ksyres 3580 LE006 Lecturer in Physics

Research Staff

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
Dr. Alex Dunhill adunhill 3160 LE115 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Daniel Holdsworth dlholdsworth 3290 LE115 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Vera Konyves  VKonyves  LE115 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Timo Laitinen tlmlaitinen Personal 3280 LE115 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Simon Thomas sthomas17  Personal 3287 LE115 Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Thomas Williams  twilliams13  LE115  Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Research Students

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
Steven Bourn sbourn 2686 MBB002 Nanophysics and Magnetic Materials
 John Cowen  LE302  Mathematics
 Rudi Ganss  LE302  Stellar physics
Sam Earp swearp Personal 3573 LE302 Extragalactic Astrophysics
Tracey Friday tfriday 3560 MB208 Extragalactic Astrophysics
Zoe Henderson zhenderson 2686 MBB002 Experimental Physics
Chris Kaye ckaye 3573 LE302 Extragalactic Astrophysics
Tigran Khachaturyants  tkhachaturyants  LE302  Extragalactic Astrophysics
Tom Kirk tkirk 3573 LE302 Mathematics
Adam Knowles atknowles 3573 LE302 Extragalactic Astrophysics
Daniel Lee dtlee1 3573 LE302 Solar Physics
Alex Lodge alodge 3573 LE302 Star Formation
Ben Macfarlane bmacfarlane 3573 LE302 Theoretical Star Formation
Anthony Mercer apmercer 3573 LE302 Theoretical Star Formation
 Joshua Parker  jparker15  3560  MB208  Stellar Physics
Raeesa Parker rparker4 3560 MB208 Stellar Physics
Simon Smalley ssmalley1 6415 MBB002 Nanophysics and Magnetic Materials
Bill Swalwell bswalwell 3560 MB208 Solar Physics
Jordan Thirlwall jjthirlwall 3573 LE302 Extragalactic Astrophysics
Peter Zelina pzelina 3573 LE302 Solar Physics

Visiting Fellows & Emeritus Staff

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
Dr. Martin Birch mjbirch 3554 Senior Visiting Fellow
Prof. Philip Bissel pbissell 3563 Emeritus Professor, Nanophysics and Magnetic Materials
Prof. Gordon Bromage gebromage 3569 Emeritus Professor, Astrophysics, Former JHI Director
Dr. Barbara Bromage bjibromage 3584 Emeritus Reader in Solar Physics
Dr. Flavio De Lorenzi Visiting Fellow
Dr. John Hargreaves jhargreaves 3554 Senior Visiting Fellow
Prof. Michael Holmes mcholmes 3561 Emeritus Professor, former Dean of Graduate Research School
Dr. Bogdan Pastrav Visiting Fellow
Dr. Mark Rushton Visiting Fellow
Prof. Dejan Vinkovic Visiting Professor, Executive Director of the Science and Society Synergy Institute – University of Split
Prof. Gerard Williger Visiting Fellow

Support Staff

Name Email Personal Telephone Room Role
David Capstick StarlinkManager 3564 MB208 Starlink System Administrator
Rick Collins rcollins 4351 MB114 Technical Support
Nuala Jones njones1 3310 LE007 Research Support Officer