Mark Swinbank

Mark Swinbank
Born	Anthony Mark Swinbank (1980-04-27) April 27, 1980 (age 45) Teesside
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Durham University (MSci, PhD)
Known for	Observational studies of galaxy formation and evolution
Awards	Philip Leverhulme Prize (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Observational cosmology
Institutions	Durham University
Thesis	Mapping the dynamics, star-formation rates, and chemical properties of galaxies with integral field spectroscopy  (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Bower and Ian Smail
Website	astro.dur.ac.uk/~ams/

Anthony Mark Swinbank ^[1] (born 27 April 1980) is a British astronomer. He is Professor of Physics at Durham University, where he specializes in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. ^[2]

Early life and education

Swinbank is from Sedgefield, County Durham. ^[3] He earned his PhD from Durham University in 2005. ^[1]

Career and research

Swinbank stayed on at Durham as a research fellow within the Institute for Computational Cosmology following the completion of his PhD. ^[1] From 2008 to 2011 he undertook a Norman Lockyer Research Fellowship. ^[4] He was the lead author of a 2009 study that found the universe's infant galaxies 'enjoyed rapid growth spurts' and formed stars at a rate of up to 50 stars per year, which was higher than previously assumed. ^[5]

In 2013, Swinback received the Fowler Award from the Royal Astronomical Society. ^[6] That year he was also awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for work on galaxy formation and evolution, gravitational lensing, and star formation. ^[7] In 2019, Swinbank led a team at the European Southern Observatory in Chile that discovered a faraway galaxy 'forming stars at a rate of 250 Suns per year' via the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. ^[8]

Selected publications

• Swinbank, A. M.; Smail, I.; Chapman, S. C.; Blain, A. W.; Ivison, R. J.; Keel, W. C. (2004). "The Rest-frame Optical Spectra of SCUBA Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 64–80. arXiv: astro-ph/0412050 . Bibcode:2004ApJ...617...64S. doi:10.1086/425171.
• Swinbank, A. M.; Smail, I.; Longmore, S.; Harris, A. I.; Baker, A. J.; De Breuck, C.; Richard, J.; Edge, A. C.; Ivison, R. J. (2010). "Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3". Nature. 464 (7289): 733–736. arXiv: 1003.3674 . Bibcode:2010Natur.464..733S. doi:10.1038/nature08880. PMID   20305639.
• Karim, A.; Swinbank, A. M.; Hodge, J. A.; Smail, I.; Walter, F.; Biggs, A. D.; Simpson, J. M.; Danielson, A. L. R.; Alexander, D. M.; Bertoldi, F. (2013). "An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: High resolution 870 μm source counts". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 432 (1): 2–19. arXiv: 1210.0249 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt196 .
• Swinbank, A. M.; Simpson, J. M.; Smail, I.; Harrison, C. M.; Hodge, J. A.; Karim, A.; Walter, F.; Alexander, D. M.; Bertoldi, F.; Biggs, A. D. (2015). "ALMA resolves the properties of star-forming regions in a dense gas disk at z \~ 3". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 806 (1): L17. arXiv: 1505.05148 . Bibcode:2015ApJ...806L..17S. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/806/1/L17.

References

1. "CV: Dr. Anthony Mark Swinbank" (PDF). Durham University . Retrieved 30 April 2025.
2. "Professor Mark Swinbank". Durham University. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
3. "First Swallow of Summer? Julie leads the way to Jobs Bonanza" (PDF). Sedgefield News. Sedgefield Development Partnership. May 2003. p. 8. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
4. "Norman Lockyer Research Fellowships" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
5. "Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies". Phys.org . 11 November 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
6. Nelson, Barry (18 January 2013). "North-East astronomers win national prizes". The Northern Echo . Retrieved 30 April 2025.
7. "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2013" (PDF). Leverhulme Trust. 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
8. Cooper, Keith (22 March 2019). "Most distant star-forming nebulae observed". Astronomy Now . Retrieved 30 April 2025.

External links

• Research.com Profile