Address:
NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics (NRC-HAA)
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria
British Columbia, Canada V9E 2E7
- 2022 – Program Lead, Optical Astronomy Technology, Astronomy Technology Directorate, NRC-HAA
- 2021 – Elected Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
- 2018 – 2021 Science Advisor to the Astronomy Technology Directorate & Lead of the Science and Projects Team, NRC-HAA
- 2011 – Research Officer / Instrument Scientist, NRC-HAA
- 2011 – Adjunct Assistant (2011), Associate (2016), Full (2021) Professor, University of Victoria
- 2008 – 2011 Plaskett Fellow / Research Associate, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
- 2006 – 2008 Research Fellow, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, University of Victoria
- 2005 – 2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Victoria
- 2002 – 2005 Ph.D, Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Advisor: Dr. Michael Irwin, Thesis: “Satellites and substructure in the Local Group” - 1998 – 2002 M.Sci. Astrophysics, First Class Honours, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
- 180 publications submitted, in press or published in peer-reviewed journals
- 13500+ citations for all publications / h-index of 60
Graduate & Postdoctoral supervision:
I am always enthusiastic to supervise students (undergrad and graduate) on topics relating to nearby galaxies and instrumentation. Please contact me if you are interested on working with me on these topics.
- 2022 – Ted Grosson (MSc) Enabling technologies for wide field spectroscopy
- 2021 – Dr. Christian Hayes, NRC post-doctoral fellow
- 2021 – Simon Smith (MSc) The galaxy luminosity function of the Local Group
- 2020 – Jaclyn Jensen (PhD) The outer reaches of the Milky Way seen with Gaia and UNIONS
- 2015 – 2022 Dr. Mojtaba Taheri (PhD) Advanced Wavefront Sensing and Astrometric Techniques for the Next Generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (w/ David Andersen)
- 2016 – 2021 Dr. Clare Higgs (PhD) Dwarfs among giants: Exploring environmental impacts on dwarf galaxies with the Solo Survey
- 2017 – 2020 Dr. Guillaume Thomas, NRC post-doctoral fellow
- 2018 – 2020 Jaclyn Jensen (MSc) Fossils of the Distant Galaxy: NGC 5466 and its Stellar Stream
- 2016 – 2020 Dr. Nicolas Fantin (PhD) – Studying a fire from its ashes: white dwarfs as probes of Milky Way evolution (w/ Pat Côté)
- 2012 – 2017 Dr. Paolo Turri (PhD) – Advancing next generation adaptive optics in astronomy: From the lab to the sky (w/ David Andersen)
- 2014 – 2016 Clare Higgs (MSc) – Solo Dwarf Galaxy Survey: the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy