Prof. Jorick Vink

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Jorick S Vink
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Jorick S Vink

My interest is in massive stars. How do they form? How do they lose mass? How do they evolve and die?

After a master’s project at NASA and a PhD at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, I moved to Imperial College London as a PDRA, then to Keele University as a RCUK Fellow, while I am currently a Research Astronomer at Armagh Observatory. During the merger of the Observatory and Planetarium in 2015-2016 I was Acting Director of the Planetarium.

My research is at the interface of Observation & Theory. On the theoretical side I am particularly interested in the theory of stellar winds & evolution, whilst on the observational side most of my work involves spectroscopy and spectro-polarimetry.

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X-Shooting Ulysses

We obtain 250 massive star spectra in the Ultraviolet with the ULLYSES programme that employs 500 orbits of HST DDT time AND complementary XShooter Optical+Infrared spectra via our ESO-VLT Large Programme that we secured on behalf of the massive star community. See Paper I

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