Dr Paul Woods
PDRA - Astrophysics Group
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
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Introduction
I am a post-doctoral research assistant (PDRA) in the Astrophysics Group of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, the University of Manchester, working with Dr. Ciska Kemper. This is my second post-doc, the first being a three-year placement (2005-2008) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the NASA Postdoctoral Program, with Dr. Karen Willacy. This position is somewhat of a "homecoming", since I studied for my PhD at UMIST (2001-2004) under the guidance of Profs. Albert Zilstra and Tom Millar. I also did my undergraduate Master's degree at UMIST (1996-2000), graduating with a first class MPhys in Mathematical Physics. I spent two years (2001-2003) of my PhD working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Santiago, Chile, with Dr. Lars-Åke Nyman.
Please see my page on academia.edu
Current responsibilities
Committee member of the Astrophysical Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Astronomical Society
SAGE-Spec Project Manager, studying the life-cycle of dust in the Magellanic Clouds
Chair of the School of Physics & Astronomy Postdoc Forum
Astrophysics Postdoc Representative
Research interests
Primarily, my interest is chemistry and chemical modelling. I also have an interest in mid-infrared observations of various objects, and the stellar populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Thus I have worked in the following areas:
- Astrochemistry
- Isotope chemistry
- Asymptotic and Post-asymptotic giant branch stars
- Planetary nebulae
- Protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars
- Molecular clouds
- Spitzer IRS observations
- Studies of the LMC
- Project and data management
Links to a list of publications and my curriculum vitae [under construction] can be found in the sidebar.
Dr Paul Woods
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Manchester
Alan Turing Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL, UK
Tel. 0161 275 4087
or via e-mail to Paul.Woods-at-manchester.ac.uk.
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