Dr Simon Goodwin
Lecturer in Astrophysics
Contact details
- Room : E48
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 23585
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : s.goodwin@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Hydrodynamic simulations of star formation
- The formation of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
- The formation and evolution of multiple star systems
- The formation and early evolution of star clusters
Teaching
- PHY106
- PHY229
- PHY401/2
Departmental administration
- Outreach Coordinator
- Departmental webpages
- Recruitment Committee
- UG advisor and PG mentor
Professional activities
- Leader of a review chapter for "Protostars and Planets V" - See website: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/ppv.htm
- PI of a Sheffield-Bonn Royal Society International Joint Project
- Science coordinator for the "Constellation EU FP6 RTN" - See website: http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/
Recent key publications
- "Brown dwarf formation by binary disruption", S P Goodwin and A P Whitworth. A&A in press
- "On mini-halo encounters with stars", A M Green and S P Goodwin. MNRAS, 375, 1111-1120 (2007)
- "Adaptive smoothing lengths in SPH", R E Attwood, S P Goodwin and A P Whitworth. A&A, 464, 447-450 (2007)
- "The fragmentation of cores and the initial binary population", S P Goodwin, P Kroupa, A Goodman and A Burkert. In "Protostars and Planets V", eds. B Reipurth , D. Jewitt & K. Keil (University of Arizona Press: Tuscon), p 133-147 (2007)