Prof Alexander Heger - Researcher Profile

Biography

Alexander works in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University as a Professor.

Alexander’s research areas of interest are:

• Life and explosive death of massive stars
• The origin of the elements
• Nuclear astrophysics

Current work comprises the study of massive to supermassive stars (10-100,000 solar masses); the first generations of stars in the universe (Pop III stars); evolution of rotating massive stars and the spin of their remnants; mixing and transport processes in the stellar interior; nucleosynthesis and the origin of elements, including galacto-chemical evolution - which elements are made where and when; supernovae (mechanisms and nucleosynthesis); gamma-ray bursts (collapsars and similar models) and their progenitors; modeling of Type I X-ray bursts and superbursts (thermonuclear explosions on the surface of neutron stars).

Keywords

stars, origin of the elements, nuclear astrophysics

Qualifications

DOCTORAL DIPLOMA

Institution: Munich Technical University

Year awarded: 1998

DIPLOMA IN PHYSICS

Institution: Technical University of Munich

Year awarded: 1995