Deputy Director; Distinguished Research Fellow
I am interested mainly in the formation and evolution of sunlike stars. With radio observations and magneto-hydrodynamical simulations, I aim to achieve a better understanding of their physical processes. In star formation, I study the gravitational collapse of circumstellar material around protostars (baby stars), and jet and outflow interactions with the surrounding material. In stellar evolution, I study the formation mechanism of proto-planetary and planetary nebulae in order to determine the mass-loss mechanism as sunlike stars die. Hydrogen chemistry and radiative cooling have been added into our numerical codes in order to simulate jet and outflow interactions more realistically.