George Efstathiou
George Efstathiou University of Durham (PhD) | |
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Thesis | On the rotation and clustering of galaxies (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Dick Fong[1] |
Website | www |
George Petros Efstathiou
Education
Efstathiou was educated at
Career and research
Efstathiou was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988. He was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1988 (a post held in conjunction with a fellowship of New College, Oxford). He was Head of Astrophysics between 1988 and 1994. He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics (1909) and a fellow of King's College. Efstathiou was Director of the Institute of Astronomy between 2004 and 2008. He became the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in 2008.[4]
Efstathiou has made a number of notable contributions to research in cosmology, including:
- With Marc Davis, Carlos Frenk and Simon White he pioneered the use of N-body computer simulations[5] of cosmic structure formation.
- With J. Richard Bond he made the first detailed calculations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies in cold dark matter models.[6]
- With Steve Maddox, Will Sutherland and Jon Loveday he constructed the APM Galaxy Survey and measured large-scale galaxy clustering, providing early evidence for the now-standard Lambda CDM model.[7]
- He was one of the originators of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and provided confirmation of dark energy using measurements of large-scale structure.[8]
- He is one of the leaders of the science team for the Planck spacecraft, which (as of 2015) provides the best measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
Awards and honours
He was awarded the
References
- ^ "Physics Tree - Richard Fong". Academictree.org. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Universe is 80 million years older than thought – Hamilton Spectator – March 21, 2013". Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.454460.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.14741. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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- S2CID 12988317.
- S2CID 14352991.
- ^ "Hughes Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ Royal Astronomical Society announces 2022 Gold Medal winner