Professor Stijn Wuyts
Stijn’s research explores evolutionary paths of galaxies from the early universe to the present day. To this end he uses multi-dimensional snapshots of galaxy lives, resolved spatially and spectrally. He combines these observational resources gathered with the world’s most powerful telescopes with sophisticated modelling of the galaxy stellar populations and dynamics.
University of Bath Research Portal:
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/stijn-wuyts
Dr Carolin Villforth
Carolin’s research interest is in the field of extragalactic astronomy. Particularly, she studies the growth of supermassive black holes and how supermassive black holes influence the galaxies they reside in. Such studies involve working with large datasets and accounting for a range of selection effects.
University of Bath Research Portal
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/carolin-villforth/
Dr Hendrik Van Eerten
Hendrik’s astrophysics research focusses on relativistic jets of gas generated by massive black holes and stellar explosions. As part of this work, he uses large-scale computer simulations of fluid dynamics to model the evolution of jets and to compute synthetic observations of how the emission from such jets would appear to distant observers. These are then combined with multi-wavelength data from a range of telescopes and satellites observing cosmic explosions, using statistics to probe the parameter space of jet dynamics and emission parameters in order to constrain the physics behind the jets.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/hendrik-van-eerten/
Dr David Tsang
Dave works on a broad range of problems in theoretical astrophysics and mathematical physics, such as the physics of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, accretion discs and exoplanetary systems. He is also interested in problems related to (non-Hamiltonian) action principle methods for discrete and continuum systems, and applying geometric methods to develop new analytic and numerical techniques for exploring problems where nonconservative interactions can be important. This includes variational integrators and non-conservative action principles that can be potentially applicable across a wide range of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/david-tsang
Professor Dmitry Skryabin
Dmitry is working in the areas of computational and theoretical nonlinear optics and condensed matter physics, where he studies experimentally relevant and fundamentally challenging problems of light propagation and trapping in micro and nanoscale waveguides and resonators. He uses a range of Hamiltonian and dissipative nonlinear partial differential equations to describe a variety of effects and devices that include extreme broadening of optical spectra, soliton and shock wave propagation, nonlinear dynamics of the optical clocks and exotic states of light, such as, e.g., photonic topological insulators.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/dmitry-skryabin/
Dr Peter Mosley
Peter’s research interests are in nonlinear optics and quantum optics, particularly generating and studying light at the single-photon level. His work is focused on how properties of nonlinear materials influence the characteristics of photon pairs, and how dispersion can be engineered to improve quality of single photons. He is also interested in quantum walks of photons (the quantum analogue of a random walk) through ordered and disordered networks.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/peter-mosley/
Dr Richard James
Dick’s research focus is to develop and use computational methods for the analysis of patterns and processes in populations of social animals. His particular interest is in the use of network theory to unravel the social structure of group-living animals such as fish, ungulates and mammals, and the dynamics of the passage of goods through colonies of social insects.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-james/
