Coel Hellier - Keele University
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Professor Coel Hellier

Title: Professor of Astrophysics
Phone: +44 (0) 1782 734243
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Location: Lennard-Jones 2.04
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After an undergraduate degree in Physics at Oxford I did a PhD at the Mullard Space Science Lab of University College London, specialising in understanding interacting binary stars. I was later a Hubble Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin before taking a Lectureship in Astrophysics at Keele.

WASP telescope I lead Keele's involvement in the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, searching for planets around other stars. We operate the WASP-South observatory, which monitors hundreds of thousands of stars looking for small dips in their lightcurves when a planet transits in front of its star. WASP-South has now found many of the brightest transiting exoplanets in the Southern hemisphere.

See personal website for further information.

  • PHY-10010 Mechanics, Gravity and Relativity (Module leader)
  • PHY-10005 Electricity and Stellar Structure (Module leader)
  • PHY-20002 Stellar Astrophysics (Module leader)
  • PHY-30001 Cosmology (Module leader)