Ian Smail

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Ian Robert Smail is a British astrophysicist. He is Professor of Physics at the Durham University Department of Physics, based in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, itself part of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. [1] Since 2015, he has been ranked as one of the most highly-cited researchers in Space Sciences. [1]

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Education

Smail attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge on a Hooper Scholarship, where he completed the Natural Sciences tripos, graduating with an M.A. in Physics and Theoretical Physics in 1989. [2] He carried out his doctoral studies in Astronomy (1989–1993) at Durham University ( University College ), for a thesis entitled Gravitational Lensing by Rich Clusters, supervised by Richard Ellis. [2]

Career

From 1993 to 1995 Smail was a NATO Advanced Research Fellow in the Physics, Maths and Astronomy Division at Caltech, and subsequently a Carnegie Fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science. [2] He returned to Durham in 1996 to become a PPARC Advanced Research Fellow (1996–1998) and then from 1998 a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Physics. He was made a Professor in 2004. [2]

Honours

In 2001 Smail, alongside fellow Durham researcher Ben Moore, was one of the first recipients of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Astronomy and Astrophysics category. [3] He received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2013. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Professor IR Smail". Durham University . Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae: Ian Smail" (PDF). Ian Smail. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  3. "First Leverhulme Prizes Awarded". Physics Today . 54 (12): 70. December 2001. doi: 10.1063/1.1445561 . ISSN   0031-9228 . Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  4. "Royal Society announces new round of Wolfson Research Merit Awards". Royal Society . 26 April 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2021.