Alex Murphy
Professor A Murphy, FRAS, FinstP
- Position
- Professor of Nuclear & Particle Astrophysics
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 8208
- Email: a.s.murphy [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5285
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Alex is a member of the following School research institute, research groups and research areas:
Research institute
Research groups
Research areas
Research interests
Direct detection of dark matter, and nuclear astrophysics, especailly explosive scenarios.
Major roles in pre-honours teaching. Course organiser for Classical & Modern Physics (and Modern Physics). Also lecture modern physics (nuclear, particle and astrophysics) in first year.
Alex currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Alex has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Bright stars, dark matter
In this video Alexander describes his research on nuclear and particle astrophysics.Recent publications
- , Physical Review C, 110, p. 1-12
- , Galaxies, 12, 6, p. 1-7
- , Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 52, 1, p. 1-14
- Constraints on Covariant Dark-Matter-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment DOI, Physical Review Letters, 133, 22, p. 1-7
- Shell mergers in the late stages of massive star evolution: new insight from 3D hydrodynamic simulations DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 1, p. 687-704