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Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Portsmouth

I am an associate professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, an honorary associate professor at University College London (UCL), and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. I study different types of transients – astrophysical phenomena that change on human timescales. I mostly work on supernovae (the explosions of stars) and tidal disurption events (bright flares caused by stars being shredded by supermassive black holes). My books include [Supernova](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543149/supernova/) and [Galaxies](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548755/galaxies/)._

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Research associate, American Museum of Natural History
  • 2022–present
    Associate professor, University of Portsmouth
  • 2020–2022
    Senior lecturer, University of Portsmouth
  • 2016–2020
    Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • 2014–2016
    Postdoctoral research associate, New York University
  • 2013–2014
    Postdoctoral research associate, Johns Hopkins University

Education

  • 2013 
    Tel Aviv University, PhD in Physics and Astronomy

Publications

  • 2024
    Galaxies, MIT Press
  • 2022
    Supernova, MIT Press

Professional Memberships

  • Royal Astronomical Society
  • American Astronomical Society