Chris Evans

UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh

Hi, I'm working on instrumentation studies for the European ELT, largely thinking about resolved stellar populations. I was previously a postdoc at the ING in La Palma, and a student/postdoc at UCL. My research is primarily concerned with the evolution of massive stars, with more general interest in stellar clusters, the Magellanic Clouds and other Local Group Galaxies. PI of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey [publications]:   LATEST PAPERS:      • Paper V: The peculiar B[e]-like supergiant, VFTS698, in 30 Doradus          Dunstall et al: arXiv:1201.6389      • Paper IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus          Bressert et al: arXiv:1204.3628      • The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar          Dufton et al. ApJ, 743, L22 [press releases: ESO / STScI]      • Overview of the survey in ESO's Messenger: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey ELT simulations: The potential of J-band stellar spectroscopy with ELTs Instrument Scientist for EAGLE: An AO-corrected multi-IFU instrument for the E-ELT       Science: Overview; Stellar populations; Galaxy evolution       Technical: AO study; Science requirements Co-I of the VISTA Magellanic Clouds (VMC) Survey: Paper I Invited reviews from summer 2010: Massive Stars in the era of ELTs;    Populations of OB-type stars in galaxies; The multiplicity of massive stars ...& something a bit leftfield: Spectroscopic confirmation of a galaxy at redshift z = 8.6 PhD students: William Taylor - [R139 letter] Vincent Hénault-Brunet - [HMXB in the Wing of the SMC - ESA news release] Past students: Dr. Michael Campbell- [MAD paper]

Publications / Diary / Links UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK Telephone: +44-131-668-8364