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The Organizing Committee
- Artemio Herrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; ahd-at-iac.es, CHAIR)
Artemio Herrero made his PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität in Munich in 1986 and is currently Professor for Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. His main research interests are massive stars and star clusters in the Milky Way and the Local Universe, their properties and evolution, stellar atmospheres and spectroscopic observations.
- Gregor Rauw (Institut d'Astrophysique, Université de Liège, Belgium; rauw-at-astro.ulg.ac.be; vice-chair)
Gregor Rauw received his PhD in 1997 from Liège University and is currently a Professor in Space Science at Liège University. His primary research is the analysis of spectroscopic data of massive stars in the optical and X-ray domains with emphasis on massive binaries and their wind interactions and variable single stars.
- Chris Evans (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, ROE, UK; chris.evans-at-stfc.ac.uk)
Chris received his Ph.D. in 2001 from University College London and is a Senior Project Scientist at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh. Research interests: surveys of massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds and the Galaxy, stellar populations of other Local Group galaxies, instrumentation and simulations for future 'Extremely Large Telescopes'.
- Margaret Hanson (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA; margaret.hanson-at-uc.edu)
Margaret received her PhD
in 1995 from the University of Colorado under the direction of Peter S.
Conti. She spent three years at the University of Arizona, Steward
Observatory, as a Hubble Fellow. She is now Professor of Physics at the
University of Cincinnati. She delights in obtaining spectra of massive stars
(particularly infrared) to constrain their characteristics at all
evolutionary stages. She also studies massive young clusters through their
high mass stars to reveal the structure and star formation history of our
Milky Way. She has served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of The
Astronomical Journal since 2005.
- D. John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; hillier-at-pitt.edu)
John received his PhD in 1983 from the Australian National University and is currently a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the developer of the non-LTE radiative transfer code, CMFGEN, which can be used to study hot stars with stellar winds and supernovae. His current interests include the analysis of massive stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds, Eta Carinae, and the analysis of supernovae spectra.
- Norbert Langer (Argelander Institute für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany; nlanger-at-astro.uni-bonn.de)
- Lida Oskinova (Universität Potsdam, Germany; lida-at-astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de)
Lidia Oskinova received her PhD in 2001 from University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and is currently working in the Institute for Physics and Astronomy, in University of Potsdam, Germany. Her primary research interests are in X-ray astronomy, focusing on massive star winds, massive star clusters, and high-mass X-ray binaries. She also works on theory and modeling of inhomogeneous stellar winds as well as IR and optical spectroscopy of massive stars and clusters in Galaxy and beyond.
- Nicole St-Louis (Université de Montreal, Canada; stlouis-at-ASTRO.UMontreal.CA)
Nicole St-Louis received her Ph.D. in 1990 from University College London and
has been since 1993 a professor at the Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada.
Her primary research interests include UV and optical spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet
stars -- more specifically variability from large-scale structures in their wind,
spectropolarimetry to study the asymmetry of massive stars winds and more recently
photometric and spectroscopic changes of dust-making WC9 stars with the aim of
shedding more light on the origin of the dust.
- Richard Townsend (Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Rich
received his Ph.D. in 1997 from University College London. After spending a year outside astronomy, he returned to UCL as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2003 he relocated to the United States, and since 2008 has been an Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current interests include nonradial oscillations, magnetic fields, winds and critical rotation of massive stars, studied using theoretical and computational tools.
- Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory, UK; jsv-at-arm.ac.uk)
Jorick received his PhD in nov 2000 from Utrecht University and is currently a research astronomer at the Armagh Observatory.
His primary research is in mass loss and evolution of massive OB, LBV and WR stars, whilst he also maintains an interest in star formation studies and polarimetry.
More details about the OC members can be found in the members directory.
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