Professor Brian Schmidt
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- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom
- Funding
- See university guidance
- Application deadline
- See university guidance
About the project
Professor Brian Schmidt will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton from 2014 to 2017.
Visiting Fellow and Host
Fellow: Professor Brian Schmidt, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
Professor Schmidt was recently appointed Vice-Chancellor at ANU and will take up the position from January 2016.
Host: Dr Mark Sullivan, Physics & Astronomy
Aims of the collaboration
- To conduct ongoing research into type 1a and high redshift superluminous supernova
- To enhance collaboration between the SkyMapper and PESSTO research projects in cosmology and dark energy, which are led by the Fellow and host respectively.
- To facilitate links to several major surveys and experiments, including the Dark Energy Survey (DES)
Fellowship activities in 2015
Professor Schmidt made his first Fellowship visit to the University of Southampton in June 2015.
He will be visiting again in November and activities will include giving the annual STAG public lecture
Useful links
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
Southampton Theory Astronomy and Gravity Research Centre (STAG)
Skymapper telescope
The Dark Energy Survey
Research areas
Astronomy