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Job title: Senior Lecturer in Astronomy

Memberships and Appointments:

• Member of the JCMT Data User Group
• Chair of Critical Design Review Panel for the SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline, University of British Columbia, Canada, March 2005
• Member of the JCMT Time Allocation Group 2001-2004
  

I am an observational astrophysicist specialising in sub-millimetre astronomy and the formation of massive stars. My research involves observational studies of massive star formation and its environment, concentrating on the early evolutionary phases of massive star formation and the effects that massive stars exert upon their environment in later life. I am playing a leading role in a number of international large-scale multiwavelength surveys of our Galaxy that will revolutionise our understanding of massive star formation: the Methanol MultiBeam Survey, the SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey, the JCMT Galactic Plane Survey and the Herschel Hi-Gal Survey. I am the lead coordinator of SASSy, the SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey.

Recent highlights include successfully developing the SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey proposal for the JCMT Legacy Survey programme and the award of 500 hours of telecope time for this project; the discovery of highly deuterated and depleted massive cloud cores that are strong candidates for very early massive star formation; and the largest sub-mm imaging survey of ultracompact HII regions.

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