Professor Paul Crowther

Professor of Astrophysics

Contact details

• Room : E45
• Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24291
• Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555

email : paul.crowther@sheffield.ac.uk

Personal web page

Research interests

• Stellar winds
• Massive stars
• Starburst galaxies

Teaching

• PHY232
• PHY305
• PHY307/318
• PHY401/402

Departmental administration

• Teaching committee
• Tutor for 3rd and 4th year astronomy
• Postgraduate astronomy admissions tutor

Professional activities

• Chair of Gemini Telescope UK time assignment committee (until March 2009)
• Member of organising committee for IAU working group on massive stars (until 2009)

Recent key publications

• A spectroscopic search for the non-nuclear Wolf-rayet population of the metal-rich spiral galaxy M83. A&A, 439, 265-277
• Realistic ionizing fluxes for young stellar populations from 0.05 to 2 Z_solar. MNRAS, 337, 1309-1328
• Stellar and wind properties of LMC WC4 stars - A metallicity dependence for Wolf-Rayet mass-loss rates. A&A, 392, 653-669
• Physical properties of Wolf-Rayet stars, ARA&A in press