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I am a theoretical astrophysicist working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London. My particular research interests include: dynamics of dark matter and galaxy clusters; extragalactic jets and active galaxies; stability of radiative shocks and their post-shock flows; accretion onto compact and other stellar objects; and radiative transfer in dusty plasmas.
My PhD thesis, (1999, University of Sydney) was a formulation of stability analysis applied to the thermal instabilities of accretion shocks on magnetic white dwarfs.
Beyond my scientific interests, I have contributed to several reference books in the licensed franchise of Star Wars (through DK Publishing). I wrote Attack of the Clones: Incredible Cross Sections (2002) and Revenge of the Sith: Incredible Cross Sections (2005). I served as “technical consultant” on Inside the Worlds of STAR WARS: Attack of the Clones (2003) and Inside the Worlds of STAR WARS: Trilogy (2004).
This web page is a point of contact, but remains a perpetual “work in progress”. Some of the items references or linked from these pages are copyright to entities other than myself and used here under Fair Useage terms; the remainder of the content is copyright Curtis Saxton 1995 – 2006 etc.
| 2004— | research fellow, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, United Kingdom. |
| 2003 - 2004 | postdoc, Max Plank Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. |
| 2000 - 2003 | postdoc, Mt Stromlo Observatory and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University. |
| 1999 | PhD completed, Sir Frank Packer Department of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia. |