Albert Zijlstra
Previous appointments
1997-2004 Lecturer/Reader, UMIST, Manchester
1992-1997 Fellow/international staff member, European Southern Observatory
1991 Senior Research Fellow, South Africa Astronomical Observatory
1987-1989 PhD student, University of Groningen
1985-1989 PhD student National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA
Affiliations
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Research interests
Late stages of stellar evolution: mass loss, circumstellar matter; AGB stars; Planetary nebulae; Nearby galaxies
Techniques: Observational astronomy: infrared, optical, radio.
Facilities: VLT, VLTI, Spitzer Space Telescope, VLA
Outputs: 219 refereed journal papers, 465 outputs in total (as of Jan 2013)
Albert's personal website
Forthcoming Events
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Thursday, 12th March 2026 - The secret lives of Planetary Nebulae (Guest Speaker)
Previous Events
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Thursday, 9th June 2022 - Searching for the Supernova of 1181
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Thursday, 11th January 2018 - The Evolution of the Earth