Catherine Heymans
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Catherine Heymans FRSE is a British astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and academic based at the University of Edinburgh.
Biography
Heymans received a first class Masters in Physics at University of Edinburgh in 2000. In 2003 she received her PhD from University of Oxford. She won a series of prestigious fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris and University of Edinburgh. In 2009 she was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council and has since been made a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[1].
Academic interests
Heymans is best known for her work on using the technique of cosmic Weak gravitational lensing to learn more about the Universe. She led the Shear Testing Programme STEP1 competition [2] and co-leads the lensing collaboration of the Canada France Hawaii Legacy Survey: CFHTLenS.[3]
References
- ^ "Professor Catherine Heymans FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "STEP: Shear TEsting Programme". Roe.ac.uk. 5 December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ "News CFHT - Astronomers reach new frontiers of dark matter". Cfht.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
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