Dr. Robert Izzard
Dr Robert Izzard
Credit: Surrey University
I am an STFC Rutherford fellow and lecturer in the astrophysics group at the University of Surrey.
I was previously at the Institute of Astronomy, part of the University of Cambridge. I was also a teaching by-fellow at Churchill College.
Prior to this I was a W2 Professor at the University of Bonn, a Marie-Curie fellow at l'Université libre de Bruxelles, an NWO fellow at the University of Utrecht and I did my PhD at the IOA in Cambridge, graduating in 2004.
Date | Talk at GAS meeting |
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2 Jan 2020 | Binary stars: astrophysical laboratories The stars in the sky are not always isolated and alone: many live with companions in binary star systems. If the stars in a binary are close enough they can interact by interchanging mass and spin, leading to astophysical phenomena like thermonuclear supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. |