Roberto Abraham
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Roberto Abraham, FRSC (born 12 Apr 1965) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Education
Abraham received a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and a PhD from Oxford University in 1992, working under the supervision of Ian M. McHardy and Roger Davies.[1]
He did post-doctoral work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.[1]
Career
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]
He is currently a co-principal-investigator on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array telescope, which images ultra-low surface brightness galaxies at visible wavelengths of light.[5]
Abraham was the President of the Canadian Astronomical Society from 2016 to 2018.[6] He currently serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee[7] and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.[8]
Awards and recognition
- 2005 – University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award [9]
- 2011 – Canadian Astronomical Society P.G. Martin [10]
- 2015 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[11][12]
- 2017 – Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship [13]
References
External links
- ↑ a b 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 puzzleTemplate:Dead link, The Daily Galaxy (June 15th 2011).
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