Professor Elizabeth Winstanley's Homepage

School of Mathematics and Statistics,
The University of Sheffield,
Hicks Building,
Hounsfield Road,
Sheffield.
S3 7RH
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-(0)114 222 3796
Fax: +44-(0)114 222 3809
Email: E.Winstanley_at_sheffield.ac.uk

I am a member of the Astro-Particle Theory and Cosmology Group in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.

Career Outline

• 2009-present: Professor of Mathematical Physics (Reader in Mathematical Physics from January 2007, Senior Lecturer from October 2005, Lecturer September 2000 - October 2005) at the University of Sheffield.
• 1996-2000: Fellow in Applied Mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford.
• July-December 1999: Guest member of staff at the Department of Physics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where I was part of the Mathematical Physics Group.
• 1992-1996: Research student at the University of Oxford, initially supervised by Dr. A. C. Ottewill (now of University College, Dublin), subsequently by Dr. N. E. Mavromatos (now of King's College, London).
• 1989-1992: Undergraduate at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, obtaining first class honours in Mathematics.

Professional Activities

• Awarded the Australian Institute of Physics' Women in Physics Lectureship 2010
• Deputy Director of Teaching for the School of Mathematics and Statistics
• Member of the Executive Committe of the Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom

Past Professional Activities

• Co-ordinator of support teaching for the School of Mathematics and Statistics (2009-2010)
• Assistant admissions tutor for the School of Mathematics and Statistics (2002-2009)
• Member of the Education Committee of the London Mathematical Society (2002-2009)
• Member of the Council of the London Mathematical Society (2005-2009)
• Member of the Committee of Heads of Department of Mathematical Sciences (2007-2009)
• Chair of the Gravitational Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (2006-2009), having previously served as Honorary Secretary of the Group

Main Research Interests

My main research interests are:

• Hairy black holes
• Classical black hole solutions in various models of gravity
• Classical stability of hairy black holes
• Quantum gravity phenomenology
• Quantum field theory in curved space
• Hawking radiation of brane black holes, as produced at particle colliders
• Quantum states of rotating black holes

1905 and All That: An introduction to some of the ideas of special and general relativity, from a seminar given to the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield.

To Infinity and Beyond: Following from ``1905 and All That'', another talk given to the Department of Pure Mathematics, this time covering global and local geometry in General Relativity.

A very informal (and hopefully amusing) presentation of ideas about black holes and my research (for best results, use Microsoft Internet Explorer, notes pages do not view as well in Netscape).

Teaching

MAS112 Vectors and Motion

Other interests

Wigan Rugby League Football club
Cricket, especially Lancashire C.C.C
Playing the piano and guitar (badly)
Judge John Deed
James Bond
Inspector Morse
Northern Italy