Richard Ellis’ Former and Current Ph.D. Students (1974-present)


 

 

Student

Dates

Thesis Title

Current Position

 

 

 

 

 

1

David  Axon

1970-74

Polarisation Studies of Galaxies

Head, Math & Physical Sci, U Sussex (deceased)

 

2

Stephen Phillipps

1975-79

Correlation Analysis of Deep Galaxy Samples

Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, U Bristol

3

Iain Inglis

1979-86

Spectroscopic Studies of Supergiant Elliptical Galaxies

Associate, Plum Consulting

4

Bahram Mobasher

1982-86

An infrared study of a sample of optically-selected galaxies

Professor of Astronomy, UC Riverside

5

Iain MacLaren

1983-87

Studies of distant clusters of galaxies

Director, Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, National University of Ireland, Galway

6

Tom Broadhurst

1984-89

A faint galaxy redshift and implications for cosmology

Research Professor, University of Basque Country

7

Richard Bower

1986-90

The stellar populations of early-type galaxies in groups and clusters

Professor of Astronomy, U Durham (deceased)

8

Alfonso Aragòn Salamanca

1988-91

Optical and infrared studies of distant galaxies

Professor of Astronomy, U Nottingham

9

Ian Smail

1989-93

Gravitational lensing by rich clusters of galaxies

Professor of Astronomy, U Durham

 

10

 

Jeremy Heyl

 

1992-94

 

Galaxy evolution: observations, analysis and theory

 

Professor & Canada Research Chair, U British Columbia

11

Francisco Castander

1993-96

X-ray studies of high redshift galaxies

Scientific Investigator, IEEC, Barcelona

12

Amy Barger

1993-98

The morphological evolution of galaxies in distant clusters

Professor of Astronomy, U Wisconsin

13

Tim Ebbels

1994-98

Galaxy Evolution from Gravitational Lensing Studies with Hubble Space Telescope

Reader, Department of Surgery & Cancer; Imperial College London

14

Jarle Brinchmann

1995-99

The Physical Evolution of Field Galaxies

Director, Institute for Astrophysics & Space Science, Porto

15

Felipe Menanteau

 

1996-00

The Star Formation History of Field Ellipticals

Research Professor, NCSA, U Illinois

16

Meghan Gray

1997-01

Wide-Field Optical and Infrared Observations of Weak Gravitational Lensing

Professor of Astronomy, Nottingham U

17

Mark Sullivan

1998-01

Astrophysical Tracers of the Cosmic Star Formation History

Professor of Astrophysics, Southampton U

18

David Bacon

1998-01

The Detection and Measurement of Cosmic Shear

Professor of Cosmology, Portsmouth U

 

19

Andrew Firth

1998-02

Galaxy Evolution from Multi-colour Surveys

Reader, Department of Virology, Cambridge U

 

20

Richard Massey

2000-04

Gravitational Lensing with High Resolution Imaging

Professor & Royal Society Research Fellow, Durham U

 

21

Michael Santos

2000-03

Galaxy Formation at the Time of Reionization

Vice-President for Science, Foundation for NIH

 

22

David Sand

2001-05

On the Distribution of Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies

Associate Professor, U Arizona

23

Kevin Bundy

2002-06

On the Mass Assembly History of Galaxies

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

 

24

Sean Moran

2003-07

Understanding the Physical Processes Driving Galaxy Evolution in Clusters

Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

25

Daniel Stark

2004-08

Observing Galaxy Formation During the First 2 Billions Years

Associate Professor, U Arizona

26

Tucker Jones

2007-12

Detailed Studies of High Redshift Galaxies

Associate Professor, UC Davis

 

27 

Sarah Miller

2008-12

Assembly History of Disk Galaxies

US Government

 

28

Andrew Newman

2007-13

Dark Matter and the Assembly History of Massive Galaxies and Clusters

Staff Member, Carnegie Observatories

29

Matt Schenker

2009-14

How Did Galaxies Reionize the Universe

Quantitative Researcher, Process Driven Trading, New York

30

Sirio Belli

2010-15

Deep Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of High Redshift Galaxies: The Physical Growth of Passive Systems

Assistant Professor, University of Bologna

31

Nicha Leethochawalit

2013-19

Spectroscopy of Galaxies: Evolution of Escape Fractions, Metallicity Gradients and Stellar Metallicity

                       

ASTRO-3D Postdoctoral Researcher, Melbourne University

32 

 

33

Guido Roberts-

Borsani

Tom Fletcher

2015-19

 

2016-

Galactic-Scale Outflows in Galaxies of the Local Universe

The Ionising Output and Gas Content of Galaxies                      

Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Los Angeles

 

Research Associate, King’s College London

 

 

 

 

 

34

  

Romain Meyer

2017-20

 

Quasars as Probes of the Early Intergalactic Medium      

 

Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

                           

Jointly supervised with (in order of appearance):  Michael Scarrott, Carlos Frenk, Jean-Paul Kneib, Roberto Abraham(2), Alexandre Refregier(2), Ofer Lahav, Alexandre Refregier, Marc Kamionkowski, Tommaso Treu, Chris Conselice,  Tommaso Treu, Mark Sullivan, Evan Kirby, Amelie Saintonge(2), Andrew Pontzen