• Professor of Physics in the Astrophysics sub-department at the University of Oxford

• tutorial fellow in Physics at St Edmund Hall , Oxford

• theoretical astrophysics

• stellar evolution theory and its applications to  binary stellar evolution, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, galaxy evolution, planet formation
  

• stellar hydrodynamics

Recent Research Highlights (Selection)

• 2010: The end of the dark ages: the gamma-ray burst of 23 April 2009 at redshift 8.2
  
• 2008: Breakout from a Red Supergiant: First Light from a Supernova  (Press release)
  
• 2007: SN 2006X, The Gobbling Dwarf that Exploded
• 2007: The Fireworks Initiative
• 2007: Thomas Morris, Simulations of the SN 87A Ring Nebula
• SN 1993J: Predicted Companion Star Found
  

Active Research Projects

Refereed papers (2003 - 2008)

List of abstracts and published papers

Teaching

• Third-Year Astrophysics (B3): Stellar Structure and Evolution
  
 
• Fourth-Year Astrophysics Major Option C1: Advanced Stellar Astrophysics
  
 
• Astrophysics Graduate Course
  
 
• Stellar Coffee Seminar Series Archive: 2008/2009 (earlier seminars)
  
 
• Bonn
  

Contacts

• Room 702, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
• Phone: +44 (0)1865 273343
• Fax: +44 (0)1865 273390
• email: podsi@astro.ox.ac.uk