Dr. Richard Stancliffe

Biography

Richard Stancliffe is a Senior Lecturer and the School Education Director in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford focusing on the evolution and nucleosynthesis of asymptotic giant branch stars under the supervision of Dr. Christopher Tout. His graduate research exposed him to stellar evolution codes, particularly the STARS code, which he has progressively enhanced to include routines for handling nucleosynthesis and the evolution of binary stars. Stancliffe has previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2008 and worked at Monash University from 2008 to 2011 with a fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council, concentrating on carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars and the mixing processes that affect surface abundances. He also briefly worked with the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University before establishing his research group at the University of Bonn in 2012, facilitated by the Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His group's research primarily investigates binary stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, and mass transfer processes. He joined the University of Bristol in 2021 and became the Director of the Foundation Programme in 2025.

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