Ashkbiz Danehkar
Astronomy and Astrophysics Group
Ashkbiz Danehkar, M.Sc.
Ashkbiz Danehkar is a PhD student in the Astronomy & Astrophysics group of
the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University. Prior to
taking up this post in April 2010, he was a postgraduate student in the
Centre for Plasma Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
Queen's University of Belfast and a Marie-Curie early-stage training
fellowship at the University of Craiova. He obtained an MSc in Plasma Physics
from the Queen's University of Belfast in 2009 and an MSc in Computational
Engineering from the University of Rostock in Germany in 2007.
He is currently conducting research mostly on double-degenerate central stars
of planetary nebulae,
including plasma diagnostics and photoionization modeling. His
research aims to determine double-degenerate central stars of planetary nebulae,
stellar evolutionary stage and distance in conjunction with Type Ia supernova progenitors.
At the Queen's University of Belfast, he has done research on the linear and
nonlinear effects of electron acoustic-excitations in the presence of
suprathermal electrons background. This topic is of particular interest
since electron-accoutsic solitary waves often occur in the Earth's bow
shock, the auroral magnetosphere, and the Broadband Electrostatic Noise.
In addition, he studied the BRST couplings between a background field (BF)
and dual formulation of linearized gravity at the University of Craiova in
2008. It revealed that, for the first time, the dual formulation of
linearized gravity is coupled to another theory, namely the topological BF
model. Moreover, he conducted an investigation into the dynamic equations
governing the Weyl curvature by using the covariant approach to general
relativity.
