The AWESoMeTeam in 2018 November. From left to right: Lewis Ireland, Julia Roquette, Sean Matt, Tom Wilson, Tim Harries, Tim Naylor, Louis Amard, Victor See, Angela Breimann, Adam Finley (Photo credit: Sam Morrell © 2019). Not pictured: George Pantolmos. Past team photos.
Prof. Sean Matt (Principle Investigator)
S.Matt(at)exeter.ac.uk
Assoc. Prof. of Astrophysics
All Tasks (2016 - present)
Sun-like and low-mass stars
W.See(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tasks B2 &
C2 (2016 October - present)
Stellar magnetic fields (especially from Zeeman-Doppler imaging), activity & winds and their impact on rotation evolution
L.Amard(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Task C (2017 August - present)
Low-mass stars evolution, internal transport processes
J.Torres-Roquette(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Task C (2018 June - present)
Young cluster observations, stellar photometric variability,
rotation, environmental effects
L.G.Ireland(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Task A (2018 December - present)
Effects of rotation and magnetism on stellar structure, magnetic star-disk interactions
aab222(at)exeter.ac.uk
PhD Student
Task C2 (2017 September - present)
Stellar magnetic activity, rotation, and evolution
tjgw201(at)exeter.ac.uk
PhD Student
Task A2 (2018 August - present)
Star-disk interation in star formation, theory, radiative transfer, observational signatures
Collaborators
timn(at)astro.ex.ac.uk
Professor, University of Exeter
Task C
Star formation, clusters, stars, observations
T.J.Harries(at)exeter.ac.uk
Professor, University of Exeter
Task A2
Star formation, observations, theory, radiative transfer, radiation hydrodynamics
Dr. Claudio Zanni
zanni(at)oato.inaf.it
Astrophysicst, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
Tasks A, B, & C1
Young star angular momentum, magnetic star-disk interactions,
winds & jets, computational MHD
af472(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoct, CEA Saclay, France
Task B1
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2020 June - 2020 November)
AWESoMeStars PhD Student (2016 July - 2020 May)
Magnetohydrodynamics, simulations, stellar winds and magnetism of Sun-like stars, specifically the role of complex magnetic fields. Remote and in-situ measurements of solar magnetic and wind properties, especially angular momentum loss.
Dr. George Pantolmos
george.pantolmos(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Postdoc, IPAG Grenoble & University of Torino
Tasks A1, B2
AWESoMeStars PhD Student, Task B2 (2016 July - 2019 May)
Theoretical plasma astrophysics, computational MHD, outflows, stellar winds, star-disk interactions
Previous Team Members
Amy Goodsall
ag686(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task C (2020
June - 2020 September)
The relationship between magnetic fields and chromospheric activity in the Sun and stars
Sophia Stasevic
ss948(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task C1 (2020
June - 2020 September)
The effect of massive stars in the rotational scenario of pre-main-sequence clusters
Charlie Davey
cd543(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task C1 (2020
June - 2020 September)
The effects of star-disk interaction on the spin-evolution of pre-main-sequence stars
Tobias Slade-Harajda
ts530(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task C2 (2020
June - 2020 September)
Probing the initial spin-rate distributions for young clusters
Alexis Lau
ysl204(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task B (2019
June - 2019 September)
How magnetic geometry influences the amount of open flux in a stellar wind
Amy Hewitt
ah706(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task B (2019
June - 2019 September)
Direct detection and measurement of solar angular momentum loss
Siddhant Deshmukh
sd486(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Tasks B1 (2018
June - 2018 September)
The history of solar wind angular momentum loss
Daniel Gardener
dmg210(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task A1 (2018 July -
2018 August)
Effect of multi-dimensionality on accretion disks
Piyush Sharda
ps457(at)exeter.ac.uk
Masters Student at BITS Pilani
Task C1 (2018
January - 2018 May)
Accretion rates of low-mass pre-main-sequence stars, ALMA
observations and high redshift star formation, X-ray observations of supernovae, condensation of dust in supernovae ejecta
Matthew Gent
mg477(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task C (2017 June - 2017 September)
Effect of coronal mass ejections on stellar spin-down
Dean Patient
dp348(at)exeter.ac.uk
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
Task B (2017 June - 2017 September)
Structure and visualization of complex magnetic fields in
stellar winds
Dr. Dominique Meyer
D.M.Meyer(at)exeter.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2017 October - 2018 September)