CURRICULUM VITAE

Richard Salisbury Ellis

 

ADDRESS:                                     Astronomy Department

                        Mail Stop 105-24

                        1200 E California Blvd

                        California Institute of Technology     

    Pasadena CA 91125, USA

     Phone:     (626)-395-2598 (direct)

               (626)-395-4970 (secretary, jlm@astro.caltech.edu)

                     (626)-676-5530 (cell)

FAX:      (626)-568-9352

e-mail:    rse@astro.caltech.edu

www:     http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~rse/

                     (see also http:/www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~rse/)

 

DATE OF BIRTH:                        25th May 1950 at Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK

NATIONALITY:                        British / US Permanent Resident (since June 2001)

MARITAL STATUS:                            Married  (Barbara, 1972)

                                                             Two children (Hilary, 1976; Tom, 1978)

EDUCATION:                          1968 - 1971                          Department of Astronomy

University College London, UK

B.Sc. First Class Honours in Astronomy

                        Prizes:                        1970 - Huggins Astronomy Prize

1971 - Faculty of Sciences Silver Medal

(awarded for best first class degree)

1971 - 1974: Department of Astrophysics, 

Oxford University, UK

D.Phil. in Astrophysics (Nov 1974)

Stellar Abundances and Nucleosynthesis

                        Prizes:                        1972  -  Johnson Memorial Prize

1972  - Graduate Award, Wolfson Coll.

 

PROFESSIONAL:                        1974 - 1977:                        Senior Demonstrator in Physics

University of Durham, UK

1977 - 1981: Senior Research Assistant

University of Durham, UK

1981 - 1983: Lecturer in Astronomy

University of Durham, UK

1983 - 1985: Principal Research Associate

Royal Greenwich Observatory, UK

                        1985 - 1993:                        Professor of Astronomy

University of Durham, UK

1989 - 1993: SERC Senior Research Fellow

                        1993 - 1999:         Plumian Professor of Astronomy & Experimental Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK

                        1994 - 1999:                         Professorial Fellow, Magdalene College

                                                                           University of Cambridge, UK

                        1994 - 1999:                        Director, Institute of Astronomy

                                                University of Cambridge, UK

                     

                                                                 1999 -                      Professor of Astronomy

                                                                           California Institute of Technology, USA

                                                                 1999 -                        Deputy Director, Palomar Observatory

                                                               2000 -                      Professor of Observational Astrophysics

                                                                           University of Cambridge, UK

                        2000 -                          Director, Palomar Observatory

 

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS:

 

1985: Senior Visiting Fellow

                                                         Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore

                                                                 1991:                        Senior Visiting Fellow

                                                Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney Australia

                        1991:                        Visiting Professor, Caltech

                                                             1992:                        Visiting Professor, Princeton University

                                  1997:            Visiting Professor, Caltech & Carnegie   Observatories

                                                            1994 -                                    Associate, Canadian Inst..for Advanced Research

                                                                 1994 -                        Visiting Professor, University of Durham, UK

2001                   Visiting Professor, Japanese Society for

the Promotion of Science

2002                   Board of  Reviewing Editors, Science Magazine

 

LEARNED SOCIETIES:  

 

                                                              1974 -                         Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

                                                                 1985 -                        Member, American Astronomical Society

                                                               1985 -                         Member, Astronomical Society of the Pacific

 

DISTINCTIONS:               

    

                                                              1995                         Fellow of the Royal Society

                                                               1998                         Fellow of the Institute of Physics

                                                               1998                         Fellow, University College London

 

NAMED LECTURES:    

 

                                                               1992:                        Jeffrey L Bishop, Princeton

                                                               1993:                         Halley, Oxford

                                                                1996:                         Cormack, Royal Soc. Edinburgh

                                                                1997:                        Norman Lockyer, Royal Astronomical Society

                                                              1998:                         Sackler, Harvard

                                                Bakerian, Royal Society

                                                Poynting, Birmingham

                                                                1999:                        Grubb Parsons, Durham

                                                                            Rosenblum, Jerusalem

                        2001:                Lansdowne, Victoria

 

PUBLICATIONS:                                over 290 scientific articles accepted/in press

 

 

MAJOR RESEARCH FUNDING

 

(as single or multiple Principal Investigator)

 

University of Durham (1974 - 1993)

 

1988 – 1994                        Observational Cosmology (SERC)                                    £180,000 p.a.

                        (postdoctoral support)

            Observational Cosmology (SERC)                                    £80,000 p.a.

                        (telescope travel support)

                        Astronomical Instrumentation for Ground-Based Telescopes                        £80,000 p.a.

                        (SERC) (infrastructure and R&D)

                        Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (SERC)                                    £140,000

 

University of Cambridge (1993 – 1999)

 

1994 - 1998                        Observational Astronomy (PPARC)                                 £295,000 p.a.

                        (postdoctoral support)

                        Visiting Fellows in Astronomy                            £33,500 p.a.

                        (Cambridge Visitor Programme)

                        UK Survey Unit                                          £435,000 p.a.

                        (national wide-field imaging unit)

                        Deep Sky Initiative (private sources)                   £1,500,000

                        (astronomical instrumentation)

                        Gravitational Lensing (European Union)                                      £685,000

                        (distributed postdoctoral support)

                        Night Sky Suppression Spectrograph                           £150,000

 

California Institute of Technology  (1999 - present)

 

2000                         Design Study for DEIMOS-IR spectrograph                                                                  $78,000

                                 New Techniques in Weak Gravitational Lensing (Conference)       $15,000

                        The Role of Dark Matter in Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution     $359,203

                                 (HST Cycle 9)

                                 Design Study for KIRMOS spectrograph (w. K. Taylor)            $265,000

 

2001                         Imaging the Host Galaxies of Distant Type Ia Supernovae             $75,458

                                 (HST Cycle 10)           

                                 Resolving the Puzzling Dark Matter Concentration in Abell 1942   $39,174

                                 (HST Cycle 10)

 

                                      

                                          MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES

 

1978 - 1979:                        Panel on Astronomical Image and Data Processing

                        (responsible for initiating the STARLINK computing project)

1979 - 1982:                        Astronomy II Grants Committee

                        (grants for ground-based/space uv,optical and infrared studies)

1979 - 1983:                         STARLINK Scientific Advisory Group

                        (defining and managing the STARLINK project)

1980 - 1983:                          Panel for Allocation of Telescope Time

                        (all UK optical and infrared telescopes)

1981 - 1984:                          STARLINK Special Interest Group on 2-D Image Processing                         (Chairman) (responsible for coordinating national software development)

1982 - 1983:                         ESA/SERC IUE Time Allocation Committee

                        (international time allocations)

1982 - 1983:                         Astronomy, Space and Radio Computer Review Panel

                        (review of national computing facilities)

1984 - 1985:                         Space Telescope Scientific Working Group:  Deep Surveys

                        (planning committee which led to concept of key projects)

1984 - 1987:                          La Palma Telescopes Users Committee

                        (with responsibilities for defining and procuring instrumentation)

1985 - 1988:                         Studentships and Fellowships Panel

                        (selection & interviewing national 5-year research positions)

1985 - 1989:                         Astronomy and Planetary Sciences Grants Committee

                        (all ground-based projects)

1988 - 1990:                         Space Telescope: European Coordinating Facility: Users’ Committee                         (Chairman) (management of European centre for Space Telescope archiving

                         and user support)

1986 - 1990:                         UK Large Telescope Panel (Chairman):

                        (Strategy and funding requirements for future large telescopes)

1990 - 1992:                        Space Telescope Scientific Advisory Committee

                        (advising STScI on scientific exploitation of Hubble Space Telescope)

1990 - 1993:                          GEMINI UK Scientific Advisory Committee

                        (Chairman: UK Scientific Policies for 2 x 8-m Telescopes project)

1990 - 1995                        GEMINI International Science Committee

                        (Scientific Planning and Policies for 2 x 8-m Telescope project)

1991 – 1995                         Anglo-Australian Telescope Board of Directors

                        (Executive Board for 3.9 meter Anglo-Australian Telescope)

1992:                         Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee

                        Chairman: Galaxies and Clusters Panel (allocation of telescope time)

1993 - 1995:                           Optical Infrared mm Strategy Planning Committee

                        (long term planning of UK Ground-based facilities & management)

1994 - 1999:                        European Association for Research in Astronomy (Board Member):

                                          (coordinating research amongst Paris, Munich,, Leiden, Cambridge

                        & Tenerife)

1994 - 1995:                           HST and Beyond Panel (a.k.a the “Dressler committee”)

                        (future NASA/ESA space missions and HST instrumentation)

1994 - 1999:                         GEMINI UK Steering Committee (Chairman 1994-6):

                                             (management of scientific & financial aspects of UK's  involvement )

1994:                          ASTRON Foreign Evaluation Committee

                        (Decadal Review of Dutch Astronomy)

1995 - 2000:                         Space Telescope Institute Council

                        (Oversight of Institute responsible for Hubble Space Telescope)

1995 - 1996:                         Max Planck Institute (Germany)

                        (Search Committee for MP Director, Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

1995 - :                         IUCAA Science Advisory Committee

                        (Visiting Committee for Indian Inter-University Research Centre)

1995 – 1998:                        GEMINI Board of Directors

                        (Executive Board for international 2 x 8-m Telescope Project)

1996 – 1998:                        Ground Based Facilities Committee

                        (coordination and future planning of UK ground-based facilities)

1996 – 1999:                        UK-Japan N+N Board

                        (coordination of ground-based initiatives between UK and Japan)

1998 – 1999:                        PPARC Science Committee

(prioritisation of future UK projects in astronomy  & particle physics)

1999:                                   National Academy of Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey,

                                           UV, Optical and IR from Space Panel (Decadal Review)

1999  -               VISTA Executive Board:

                                           (management of construction of UK Wide Field Survey Telescope)

1999 -                         Royal Society Sectional Committee

                        (adjudication and selection of new Fellows)

1999 -                                 CELT Steering, Science and Instrument Working Groups

                                           (planning of proposed 30-meter California optical/infrared telescope)

1999 -                                 Palomar Observatory Council (as Deputy Director and later Director)

2000                                  Canadian Long Range Astronomy Plan (International Advisory Group)

2000-                                  Keck Science Steering Committtee (planning and budgetary responsibility

                                     for instrumentation and science program)

2000-                                       CARA Board of Directors

      (Executive Board for Keck Observatory)

2001-                                     AURA Board of Directors (Executive Board for Astronomical Research

                                               in US Universities)                                     

2001                                  ECTH, Zurich (Switzerland) Search Committee for Director of Astronomical

                                               Institute

2001-                                     Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities,

                                               Visiting Committee  for Astronomy                                    

2001-                                     Committee for Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Academy of Sciences          

2002-          Fachbeirat (Visiting Committee), Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial                     Astronomy

                            

                  INVITED LECTURES AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

                                                     (Last 7 years)

 

1995:                •                        XXXth Recontres de Moriond ‘Clustering in the Universe’ Les Arcs, France

                         •                        NAM95 - National Astronomy Meeting, Cardiff, UK

                         •                        ‘Some Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics’, Princeton

                         •                        South African Institute of Physics, Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa

                         •                        ‘The Universe at High Redshift, Edinburgh,  UK

                         •                        ‘Progress in European Astrophysics’ JENAM95, Catania, Italy

                         •                        From Stars to Galaxies’ Porto Elounda, Crete, Greece

                         •                        ICGC-95 ‘Gravitational and Cosmology’ Pune, India

1996:                •                        ‘The Early Universe with the ULT’, ESO, Munich, Germany

                         •                        NAM96 - National Astronomy Meeting, Liverpool, UK

                         •                        Canadian Astronomical Society, Annual Meeting, Kingston, Canada

                         •                        ‘Critical Dialogues in Cosmology’, Princeton

                                                 •                        Formation and Evolution of Galaxies’ III Reunion Regional de Astronomia                                                                                     Extragalactica, Cordoba, Argentina

                         •                        ‘New worlds in Astroparticle Physics’ Faro, Portugal

                         •                        ‘Mysteries in Relativistic Astrophysics’ Amsterdam, Netherlands

                         •                        ‘Chemical Evolution in Galaxies and Clusters’ Royal Astron. Society, London, UK

                         •                        The Emergence of Structure in the Universe’, Pontifical Acad. Sciences, Vatican., Italy

1997:                •                        Winter Conference on Astrophysics, Aspen, Colorado

                         •                        ‘Science with the Next Generation Space Telescope’ Washington DC

                         •                        ‘Hubble Deep Field’ STScI Symposium, Baltimore

                         •                        ‘Galaxy Evolution’ Ringberg, Germany

                         •                        IAU Symposium 183 ‘Cosmological Parameters’ Kyoto, Japan (conference summary)

                         •                        IAU Symposium 186 ‘Galaxy Interactions’ Kyoto, Japan

1998:                •                        ‘Gravitational Lensing’ Oxford University, UK

                         •                        ‘Development of Large Scale Structure’ Royal Society, London, (co-organiser)

                         •                        ‘Cosmos, Quantum’ Colston Symposium, Bristol, UK

                         •                        Wide Field Surveys in Cosmology’ IAP, Paris, France (conference summary)

                         •                        ‘NGST: Science Drivers & Technological Challenges’ Liege, Belgium

                         •                        ‘Formation & Evolution of Galaxies’ INAOE, Mexico

                         •                        ‘Galaxy Dynamics’ Rutgers University, NJ

                         •                        ‘Galaxy Evolution’ TMR Review Meeting, Leiden, Netherlands

                         •                        ‘Astronomical Instruments & Methods for the 21st Century’, Heidelberg, Germany

                         •                        ‘Discovering The Milky Way’, Medellin Planetarium, Colombia

                         •                        19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Paris, France

1999:                 •   Tenth Anniversary Meeting, IUCAA, Pune, India

                         •  ‘Imaging the Universe in 3-D’, LLNL, Walnut Creek, CA

                         •   ‘Progress in Gravitational Lensing’: TMR Conference, Bonas, France

                         •   ‘Large Scale Structure and Cosmology’, Cambridge, UK                          

                         •  ‘High Redshift Galaxies’, Ringberg Germany                     

                         •   NAM-99, UK National Astronomy Meeting, Guernsey

                         •   ‘Cosmological Constant’, Institute of Physics, London, UK

                         •   ‘Galaxy Formation’, Royal Society, London, UK

2000:                 •   CIAR ‘Gravitation & Cosmology’, Banff, Canada

                         •   ‘Galactic Disks and Disk Galaxies’, Vatican Observatory

                         •  ‘Science with the Large Binocular Telescope’, Ringberg, Germany

                         •  ‘New Cosmological Data & the Fundamental Parameters’, IAU Manchester,  UK            

                         •  ‘Victoria Computational Cosmology  Conference, Victoria, BC Canada

                         •   Keck Annual Science Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA

2001:                 •   197th American Astronomical Society, San Diego, CA

                           •   Advanced Camera for Surveys High Latitude Workshop, Baltimore, MD 

                           •   ‘Galaxy Formation’, Oort Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands

                           •  ‘The Shapes of Galaxies & their Halos’, Yale University, CT (conference summary)

                         •   198th American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, CA

                         •   ‘Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Galaxy Clusters’, Sesto, Italy (conference summary)

                         •   ‘Cosmic Shear’, Cambridge, UK

                         •   ‘Wide Field Multiobject Spectroscopy’, Tucson, AZ                             

                         •    Keck Annual Science Meeting, Pasadena, CA

                         •   `New Trends in Theoretical & Observational Cosmology’, U. Tokyo

 

                       


 

RECENT COLLOQUIA  (Last 6 years)

 

1996                        Osservatorio Capodimenti, Naples, Italy

                        Physics Department, Oxford

                        Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Germany

                        Astronomische Institute Potsdam (2), Germany

                        Observatoire de Toulouse, France

                        Observatoire de Strasbourg, France

                        Department of Astronomy, Penn State University, PA 

1997                                 Astronomy Department, University of Sussex

Liverpool (John Moores) University

California Institute of Technology, CA

TAC, Copenhagen, Denmark

Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley, CA

Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA

Astronomy Department, UC San Diego, CA

Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA

1998                                 Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, MA

Physics Department, Imperial College London

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Marseille, France

Royal Society, London

Physics Department, University of Durham

Physics Department, University of Birmingham

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

 Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii, HI

1999                        Mathematics Department, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London

                        California Institute of Technology, CA

                        Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii, HI

                        Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

Catholic University, Santiago, Chile

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii, HI

2000                Astronomy Department, University of Chicago, IL

Institute for Theoretical Physics,UC Santa Barbara, CA

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

NOAO/Steward Observatory, AZ

Isaac Newton Group, La Palma Observatory

Arizona State University, AZ

Cornell University, NY

UC San Diego, CA

UC Santa Cruz,, CA

UC Berkeley, CA

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

                        Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

2001                  UC Los Angeles, CA

                        NRAO, Socorro, NM

                        Caltech, CA (Physics Conference Series)

                        UC Irvine, CA

                        Gemini Observatory, Hilo HI

                        University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

                        University of Victoria, B.C.

                        Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

                        National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Japan

                        Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Japan

                        Institute for Cosmic Ray Resarch, Kashiwa, Japan

 

 

                   EXTENDED VISITS AND LECTURE SERIES

 

1985:                          Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA (extended visit)

 

1989:                         Beijing Observatory, China (lecture series)

 

1990:                         Toulouse Observatory, France (extended visit)

 

1991:                         Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia (extended visit)

                        Caltech, Pasadena, USA (extended visit)

 

1992:                          Princeton University, Princeton, USA (Spring Lecture series)

 

1995:                        Astronomical Society of Australia (Lecture tour of major cities)

 

1997:                        Carnegie Observatories/Caltech (extended visit)

 

1999:                        Arcetri Observatory, Florence, Italy (lecture series)

                        Italian National Graduate School, Elba (lecture series)

                        XIth Canary Islands Winter School, Tenerife (lecture series)

 

2001:                          VIth National Lecture Series, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (lecture series)

                                  Lansdowne Lectures, University of Victoria (lecture series)

                        Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (invited lectures)

 

                                  TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

University of Durham (1974-1993)

 

1974-77:          Practical Optics and Astrophysics (Undergraduate year 3, weekly)

1981-83:          Atmospheric Physics (Undergraduate year 1, 12 lectures, enrolment 80)

1981-83:          Electricity & Magnetism (Undergraduate year 1, 36 lectures, enrolment 100)

1981-83:          Practical Physics (Undergraduate year 2, weekly)

1985-88:          Astrophysics (Undergraduate year 3, 36 lectures, enrolment 80)

1985-88:          Practical Physics (Undergraduate year 1, weekly)

1974-93:          Numerous postgraduate courses in astronomy, statistics and instrumentation

 

University of Cambridge (1995- 1999)

 

1994:                                       Galaxy Evolution (Postgraduate, 8 lectures, enrolment 20)

1995:                                       Gravitational Lensing (Postgraduate, 8 lectures, enrolment 20)

1995-99 :                         Physical Cosmology (Undergraduate year 3, 24 lectures, enrolment 15)

1998-99:           Astrophysics Projects (supervision of year 3 and 4 physics students

                                                              undertaking extended research projects)

 

California Institute of Technology (2000-)