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 | Kevin is an experienced British-Australian observational astronomer and applied data scientist, 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. He is the inaugural Director of the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, AI and Modelling (DAIM) at the University of Hull. 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, along with allied and applied sciences. |
| Research Interests | The following gives an indication of the research interests that Kevin has. Please feel free to get in contact if you are interested in a PhD in these areas or allied areas. - Galaxy evolution, formation, and environment over cosmologically significant timescales - Applied AI and machine learning, data science - Stellar populations inside galaxies and their response to their physical environment, star formation in galaxies, and active galactic nuclei - Clusters and superclusters of galaxies, their kinematics, constituents, and growth, brightest cluster galaxies (cD galaxies), and dwarf galaxies - The large-scale structure of the Universe, including filaments of galaxies that stretch between galaxy clusters, voids, and topology - Large, wide-field, and deep spectroscopic and imaging surveys of the sky, detailed spectroscopic and imaging analysis - Astronomical image processing, automated classification - Astrophysics and physics education - Random number generation, statistics, statistical methods, and 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 |