Professor Kevin Pimbblet
Post Nominals | B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D., MInstP, M.A.I.P., F.R.A.S., F.A.S.A. |
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Biography | Physics Research Excellence Framework Lead/ Athena Swan Departmental Champion Kevin is an experienced British-Australian observational astronomer, having worked in multiple research intensive institutions across two continents. He read his PhD at the University of Durham (Collingwood College) and, following more than a decade in Australia, returned to the UK in 2014. His core research interests cover a number of modern astrophysical topics and issues in the umbrella areas of extra-galactic astronomy and astrophysics, large-scale structure of the Universe and cosmology. |
Research Interests | Primary areas - Galaxy evolution, formation, and environment over cosmologically significant timescales - Stellar populations inside galaxies and their response to their physical environment - Clusters and superclusters of galaxies, their kinematics, constituents, and growth - Star formation in galaxies, and active galactic nuclei - Brightest cluster galaxies (cD galaxies), and dwarf galaxies - Filaments of galaxies that stretch between galaxy clusters, voids, large-scale structure, and topology - Large, wide-field, and deep redshift surveys of the sky Other areas - Astronomical image processing, automated classification, machine learning - Virtual observatory, and catalogue matching and handling - Astrophysics and physics education - Dark energy, and the standard model of cosmology - Random number generation, statistics, statistical methods, game theory |
Scopus Author ID | 6602374588 |
arXiv ID | pimbblet |
PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
PhD Topics | Observational astronomy and astrophysics, with a particular focus on galaxies, galaxy evolution, galaxy formation, stellar populations of galaxies, AGN, galaxy clusters, and large-scale structure of the Universe. Completed PhDs - Charlotte Wilkinson (2015-2019) - Yjan Gordon (2015-2018) - Amelia Fraser-McKelvie (2013-2017) - Jacob Crossett (2012-2017) - Dane Kleiner (2012-2017) - Nic Bonne (2011-2015) - David Palamara (2010-2015) - Tim Dolley (2010-2015) - Richard Beare (2010-2014) - Brendan Griffen (2008-2009) - Russell Jurek (2005-2009) - Peter Firth (2005-2008) - Isaac Roseboom (2004-2007) Current PhD supervisions - Mikkel Kristensen - Mikkel Lindholmer - Lawrence Bilton - Oliver Bartlett |