Roberto Abraham
Roberto Abraham | |
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 Roberto Abraham in Baltimore, June 2003 for a meeting of the Gemini Deep Deep Survey team. | |
| Born | 12 April 1965 |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Known for | Observational cosmology, galaxy evolution, first galaxies |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Imaging of BL Lac Objects (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | I.M. McHardy, R.L. Davies |
| Website | www |
Roberto Abraham, FRSC (b. 12 Apr 1965, Manila, Philippines) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Educated at UBC (BSc) and Oxford (DPhil), Abraham did post-doctoral work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.[1]
Abraham's career has been notable for his contributions via non-parametric statistics to galaxy morphological classification, especially at high-redshift and early work on the Hubble Deep Field.[2] He was one of the leaders of the "Gemini Deep Deep Survey"[3] which led to several notable results on early galaxies including the evolution of elliptical galaxies and why a lot of them appear so remarkably old.[4] In 2011 Abraham won the P.G. Martin award of the Canadian Astronomical Society.[5]
Abraham currently serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee[6] and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.[7]
External links
References
- ^ Abraham's departmental biography page
- ^ Galaxy morphology to I=25 mag in the Hubble Deep Field, 1996, MNRAS, 279 L47
- ^ Gemini Observatory - the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
- ^ Casey Kazan; The early universe puzzle, The Daily Galaxy (June 15th 2011).
- ^ Abraham wins P.G. Martin Award - University of Toronto
- ^ JSTAC members
- ^ Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada