I am an Associate Professor of Astronomy in the Physics & Astronomy Department of the University of Western Ontario. I received my BSc in Astronomy from Western in 1988 and my MSc (1991) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Toronto. I was a Post-Doc at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, before returning to Western as a Post-Doc in 1997. I joined Western's faculty in 1999. I was the Department's Associate Chair for Graduate Studies from 2007 until 2012. I am currently the Department’s Associate Chair for Administration.
My main research interests are circumstellar disks around hot stars, classical Be stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars, and non-LTE radiative transfer as applied to precise stellar abundance determinations. I am also very interested in optical and near-IR stellar interferometry. All of my research projects involve large-scale computational modelling. I currently supervise three graduate students: Ahmed Ahmed (PhD), Parshati Patel (PhD, whom I co-supervise with Dr. John Landstreet), and Ethan Rowe (PhD).
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