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Stanley P. Owocki

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Professor 205 Sharp Lab (302) 831-8357 owocki@bartol.udel.edu http://www.bartol.udel.edu/~owocki/

Fields of Research

Dr. Owocki graduated from Brown University in 1973 with a B.S. in Biophysics. He then worked for two years as a scientific programmer at separate Max-Planck Institutes for Animal Behavior and for Astrophysics near Munich, Germany. Upon returning to the U.S., he began graduate study in astronomy at the Ohio State University, transferring after one year to the University of Colorado. His thesis research on "The Ionization State of the Solar Wind" was carried out at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Owocki spent two years as a Langley-Abbott Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and then three years as an Assistant Research Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science of the University of California at San Diego. His efforts during this time involved extensions of his thesis research on the solar wind, and initiation of new projects on other types of stellar winds.

At Bartol, Dr. Owocki's research interests center on the dynamical role that radiation plays in initiating, sustaining, and structuring mass outflows from hot, luminous stars. This involves both analytic analysis as well as radiation-hydrodynamics simulations using supercomputers. In collaboration with many international colleagues, and with Bartol Research Scientist Richard Townsend results from these simulations are being used to interpret space-based observations of these stars obtained with satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Far Ultraviolet Spectrometer Explorer, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.