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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Project ScientistUK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC)Senior Project Scientist | ||
Education
- 2001: Ph.D. Astronomy – University College London
- 1997: BSc Astrophysics (1 Class Honours) – University College London
Employment
- 2011-Senior Project Scientist – UKATC, Edinburgh
- 2005-2011 Project Scientist – UKATC, Edinburgh
- 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Researcher – Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain
- 2001-2002 Postdoctoral Researcher – University College London
Relevant Experience
Past roles as Instrument Scientist for three major conceptual-design studies for ground-based telescopes:
- WEAVE for the William Herschel Telescope (now in construction)
- MOONS for the Very Large Telescope (now in construction)
- EAGLE Phase A study for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
- UKATC co-I for E-ELT HARMONI
- PI of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey, the world’s largest collaboration investigating the physics and evolution of massive stars, involving more than 50 astronomers worldwide, with over 20 refereed papers published to date.
- 91 refereed papers (15 as first author, 8 as PhD supervisor of lead author); Hirsch index (#papers ≥ #cites) = 33; total citations > 4000
Chair of SPIE ground-based & airborne instrumentation conference (2016); programme committee member at previous meetings (2010, 2012, 2014).
Areas of Interest
- Stellar evolution/populations, multi-object spectrographs, science with ELTs,
