Dr Rana Ezzeddine, Assistant professor and Astrophysicist as the University of Florida
Hi everyone, welcome to episode 18 of Exploring Astrophysics and today the main topic will be on stellar astrophysics. I am joined by Dr Rana Ezzeddine who is an astrophysicist at the University of Florida, and whose primary interest is in stars and uncovering the mysteries behind the first stars and galaxies.
In this episode Dr Ezzeddine told me about how the chemical and physical compositions of stars can be inferred by the use of spectroscopy. Additionally, she explained what the r-process is, and how by building radiative transfer models we can calculate the abundances of elements in the atmospheres of stars.