Professor Melvin Hoare
- Position: Professor
- Areas of expertise: Development in Africa; astrophysics; star formation; radio astronomy.
- Email: M.G.Hoare@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 3864
- Location: 4.05E Sir William Henry Bragg Building
- Website: ORCID
Profile
My research focuses on the formation of massive stars - the ones that live fast, die young and control much of galaxy evolution. I carry out surveys and high resolution observations in the radio regime to investigate the feedback from jets and expanding H II regions. I lead the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) and related projects that provide training and entrepreneurial skills to a first generation of radio astronomers in developing countries in Africa. I am on the Science Working Group for the next generation radio observatory the SKA which has the potential to probe planet formation and the origins of life.
Responsibilities
- Programme Manager for Physics with Astrophysics
Research interests
- The Square Kilometre Array next generation radio telescope
- e-MERLIN radio array and Legacy Surveys - one of which I lead
- The Red MSX Survey. Leeds led project to find all massive young stars in the Galaxy
- The CORNISH-North Survey. High resolution radio survey of the northern Galactic plane that I lead.
- The CORNISH-South Survey. High resoluton survey of the southern Galactic plane that I lead.
Primary investigator (PI)
- A Programme of Astrophysical Research at Leeds
- DARA - Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy Phase 3
Qualifications
- PhD Astrophysics (Lond)
- BSc Physics and Astronomy (Lond)
Professional memberships
- Royal Astronomical Society
Student education
I am Programme Manager for the Physics with Astrophysics degree programme. I lecture introductory astrophysics in the first year and am in charge of the practical astronomy provision.
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