Paul G. Abel

Paul Abel
Citizenship	British
Nationality	British
Fields	Astronomy
Known for	Astronomy, writing, television presentation

Paul G. Abel is a British astronomer born in 1979, mathematician, broadcaster and writer. Currently, he is based in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science in the department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester where he teaches Mathematics and his research is concerned with black hole thermodynamics with Prof. Derek Raine. He also presents on BBC's long running The Sky at Night with Dr. Lucie Green, Pete Lawrence and Dr. Chris Lintott.

He has written for many popular astronomy magazines promoting amateur astronomy, and in particular, the science that amateurs can contribute to the field.

Abel initially read for an MMATH Mathematics with Astronomy degree in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at the University of Leicester, but after two years he switched to the MMATH Mathematics degree program, preferring to concentrate on the more theoretical aspects of physics- namely general relativity and differential geometry.

After graduating, he then started Doctoral work in Cosmology at the University of Sheffield. After a year however, he returned to the University of Leicester, finding his initial choice of subject "a little too left field", he then started a PhD concerned with Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics which he completed in 2012.

He is currently based in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science in the department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester where he teaches Mathematical sciences on the Natural Science degree. He also teaches on a number of Physics courses there. His current research interests include Quantum Field Theory in Curved spacetimes and Hawking radiation.

Abel is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and associate member of the Institute of Physics. He is currently an assistant director of the Saturn section of the British Astronomical Association.

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