Dr James Gillanders

Dr James Gillanders is a Research Associate at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

James is a postdoctoral research associate within the Astrophysics sub-department. His main research focus is on modelling observations of extreme stellar explosions and mergers.

In particular, James is most interested in understanding how and where the heaviest elements (e.g., platinum, gold, uranium) in the Universe are created. He is also actively involved in numerous international collaborations that are striving to discover and observe new events of this kind.

Prior to taking up employment in Oxford, he spent a year working as a postdoctoral research associate in Rome, and before that, studied for his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast.