Curriculum Vitae
- A copy of my CV in PDF format can be found here.
Details
- Name: Cameron P. M. Bell
- Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Rochester Bausch & Lomb Building Rochester, NY 14627-0171 United States
- Email: bell@astro.ex.ac.uk
- Web: www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/bell
Research Interests
- Star formation; stellar evolution; pre-main-sequence stars; environmental effects on star and planet formation.
- Colour-magnitude diagrams; evolutionary models; age spreads.
Research Positions
- University of Rochester, Rochester, US Sept. 2013 - present Postdoctoral Associate
Education
- University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 2007 - 2012 Ph.D. completed November 2012 Thesis title: A Critical Assessment of Ages Derived Using Pre-Main-Sequence Isochrones in Colour-Magnitude Diagrams Supervisor: Prof. Tim Naylor
- Interruption to Ph.D. (personal reasons) 2010 - 2011
- University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK 2002 - 2007 M.Phys. Astrophysics (Hons.) First Class Project title: Coronal X-Ray Activity of Rapidly Rotating Late-Type Stars Supervisor: Dr. Gaitee Hussain
- Madras College, St. Andrews, UK 1996 - 2002
Research Publications
Refereed
First author
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Pre-main-sequence isochrones - Ⅱ. Revising star
and planet formation time-scales, 2013, MNRAS, 434, 806
Cameron P. M. Bell, Tim Naylor, N. J. Mayne, R. D. Jeffries, and S. P. Littlefair -
Pre-main-sequence isochrones - Ⅰ. The Pleiades benchmark,
2012, MNRAS, 424, 3178
Cameron P. M. Bell, Tim Naylor, N. J. Mayne, R. D. Jeffries, and S. P. Littlefair
Co-author
- A lithium
depletion boundary age of 22 Myr for NGC
1960, 2013, MNRAS, 434, 2438
R. D. Jeffries, Tim Naylor, N. J. Mayne, Cameron P. M. Bell, and S. P. Littlefair -
No evidence for intense, cold accretion onto YSOs
from measurements of Li in T-Tauri stars, 2013,
MNRAS, 434, 966
D. J. Sergison, N. J. Mayne, Tim Naylor, R. D. Jeffries, and Cameron P. M. Bell
In Preparation
- Pre-main-sequence isochrones - Ⅲ. An internet
server for semi-empirical pre-main-sequence isochrones
Cameron P. M. Bell, Tim Naylor, N. J. Mayne, R. D. Jeffries, and S. P. Littlefair
Conferences
- Protostars & Planets VI, Heidelberg, 14th - 20th July 2013
Poster: Revising stars and planet formation timescales - The Formation and Early Evolution of Stellar Clusters, Sexten, 23th - 27th July 2012
Talk: Pre-main-sequence stars: older than we thought? - Cool Stars XVII, Barcelona, 24th - 29th June 2012
Poster: Pre-main-sequence stars: older than we thought? - UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting 2012, Manchester, 27th - 30th
March 2012
Talk: A revised pre-main-sequence age scale - Cool Stars XVI, Seattle, 29th August - 2nd September 2010
Poster: New evidence that pre-main-sequence stars are older than we thought - IAU Symposium 258: The Ages of Stars, Baltimore, 13th - 17th October 2008
- National Astronomical Meeting 2008, Belfast, 31st March - 4th April 2008
Telescope Proposals
- I am co-investigator on a proposal, the data of which I have been working on as part of my Ph.D. thesis (Testing Pre-Main-Sequence Isochrones; Naylor P.I.). The aim of this proposal was to test pre-main-sequence isochrones using young clusters ranging from 1 - 30Myr in an attempt to allow us to choose between these models and hence derive consistent ages.
- I am co-investigator on a series of proposals to obtain data that can be used to test the predications from the latest simulations of spiral arm star formation (Testing Models of Spiral Arms; Naylor P.I.).
- I am also co-investigator on a proposal to study the low-mass Taurus star-forming region (Is Environment Important for Young Stars?; Naylor P.I.). The aim of this proposal is to test our understanding of star formation physics by contrasting star formation in low-density regions which lack high-mass stars with massive, dense regions such as Orion.
Telescope Experience
- Isaac Newton Telescope, October 2007
Six nights using the WFC to obtain data for the proposal Testing Pre-Main-Sequence Isochrones - Isaac Newton Telescope, September 2008 Seven nights using the WFC to obtain data for a combination of the proposals Testing Pre-Main-Sequence Isochrones and Testing Models of Spiral Arms.
- William Herschel Telescope, November 2008 Four nights using the AF2/WYFFOS multi-object fibre-fed spectrograph to obtain data for the proposal Testing Models of Spiral Arms.
Teaching Experience
University of Exeter
- Teaching assistant: Stage II Astrophysics 2008 - 2010 and 2011 - 2012 Involves demonstrating laboratory practicals, marking student's reports and evaluating final project presentations. I have also run observing sessions for the undergraduates to gather data for their projects.
- Teaching assistant: Stage II Physics 2007 - 2008 Involves demonstrating the experiments, marking student's projects and evaluating end-of-year presentations.
Computing Skills
- Languages: Fortran; C-shell scripting; IRAF (basics); Python (basics); HTML (basics)
- Programs: TOPCAT; LaTeX
- Operating systems: Mac OS X; Unix/Linux
Academic References
- Prof. Tim Naylor Astrophysics Group University of Exeter Exeter, EX4 4QL UK Phone: +44 (0) 1392 724172 Email: timn@astro.ex.ac.uk
- Prof. Rob Jeffries Astrophysics Group Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics Keele University Keele, ST5 5BG UK Phone: +44 (0) 1782 733892 Email: rdj@astro.keele.ac.uk
- Prof. Matthew Bate Astrophysics Group University of Exeter Exeter, EX4 4QL UK Phone: +44 (0) 1392 725513 Email: mbate@astro.ex.ac.uk