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Professor Robert A. Crain
Astrophysics Research Institute
Liverpool John Moores University
IC2 Building, Liverpool Science Park
146 Brownlow Hill
Liverpool, L3 5RF
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)151 9046560
E-mail:
ORCID: 0000-0001-6258-0344
Brief CV
- Liverpool John Moores University
- 2020-, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics
- 2017-2020, Reader in Theoretical Astrophysics
- 2014-2017, Senior Lecturer
- 2014-2023, Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 2011-2014, Postdoc, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
- 2008-2011, Postdoc, Swinburne University, Australia
- 2004-2008, PhD, University of Durham
- 2000-2004, MSci, University of Durham
Royal Astronomical Society Group Award winner, 2022
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Space Science in 2021 and 2023.
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Panel & committee resposibilities
- National chair of the STFC DiRAC Astronomy & Cosmology panel
- Head of Research at the Astrophysics Research Institute.
- Academic lead for LJMU's Prospero HPC facility @ LJMU
- University Research & Knowlege Exchange Committee -- Technology Group
- Faculty Research & Knowledge Exchange Committee
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Research interests and major projects
- Formation and evolution of the galaxy population
- Co-evolution of galaxies and the circumgalactic medium
- Co-formation and evolution of galaxies and their globular clusters
- Numerical methods for high performance computing
- Nature of the cosmic dark matter
- The COLIBRE simulations
- The EAGLE simulations
- The E-MOSAICS simulations
- The GIMIC simulations
Teaching
I am the module coordinator of PHYS485 (Physics of the Radiative Universe) on the University of Liverpool / Liverpool John Moores University joint Physics degree.
Course materials can be found on the PHYS485 page of Canvas. The main textbook for the module is Astrophysical Processes by Bradt.
Current and past group members
See also the AAS Astronomy Genealogy Page here
- Anna Durrant (PhD student, 2023-)
- Chris Rowe (PhD student, 2022-)
- Ryan Roberts (LIV.INNO CDT PhD student, 2022-)
- Oliver Newton (Postdoc, 2022) → postdoc, Warsaw Center for Theoretical Physics
- Jemima Briggs (PhD student, 2020-)
- Alex Hill (LIV.DAT CDT PhD student & postdoc, 2017-2022) → data scientist, University of Liverpool
- Jonathan Davies (PhD student, 2016-2020) → postdoc, University College London
- Adrien Thob (PhD student, 2015-2019) → postdoc, University of Washington
Associate group members
- Emily Costello (PhD student, 2023-)
- Sakircan Beyazit (PhD student, 2023-)
- Andrew Mason (PhD student, 2019-)
- Shaun Brown, (PhD student, 2018-2022) → postdoc, University of Durham
- Sam Stafford (PhD student, 2018-2022) → games designer, Electronic Arts,
- Alberto Acuto (PhD student, 2017-2022) → data scientist, University of Liverpool,
- Simon Pfeifer (PhD student, 2016-2020) → postdoc, Astrophysics Institute, Potsdam
- Ted Mackereth (PhD student, 2015-2018) → postdoc, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
- Chris Barber (PhD student, Leiden, 2015-2018) → data science
Pre-doctoral students
- Srijan Seth (BSc, 2023)
- Samer Khalil (distance MSc, 2023)
- Shibhu Nambiar (distance MSc, 2023)
- Mathieu Cantin Halpin (distance MSc, 2023)
- Joshua Barrett (distance MSc, 2023)
- Stephan Groeli (distance MSc, 2023)
- Kat Kelly (distance MSc, 2022)
- Jason Robertson (distance MSc, 2022)
- Chris Rowe (MPhys, 2022)
- Ryan Roberts (MPhys, 2022)
- Saksham Kaushal (distance MSc, 2021)
- Dominic Taylor (MPhys, 2021)
- Rory Thorburn (BSc, 2021)
- Adam McDonald (MPhys, 2020)
- Samuel Lange (MPhys, 2020)
- Sebastian Turner (MPhys, 2016)
- Jorryt Matthee (MSc minor, Leiden, 2014)
- Geert Jan Talens (MSc minor, Leiden, 2014)
- Marijke Segers (MSc minor, Leiden, 2013)
Last update: February 12 2024