Roberto Abraham

Roberto Abraham
Born (1965-04-12) 12 April 1965 (age 59)
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Known forObservational cosmology, galaxy evolution, first galaxies
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, astrophysics, cosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ThesisImaging of BL Lac Objects (1992)
Doctoral advisorIan M. McHardy and Roger Davies
Websitewww.astro.utoronto.ca/~abraham/Web/Welcome.html

Roberto Abraham, FRSC (born 12 Apr 1965, Manila, Philippines) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Education

Abraham received a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and a PhD from Oxford University in 1992, working under the supervision of Ian M. McHardy and Roger Davies.[1]

He did post-doctoral work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.[1]

Career

Abraham's career has been notable for his contributions via non-parametric statistics to galaxy morphological classification, especially at high-redshift and early work on the Hubble Deep Field.[2] He was one of the leaders of the "Gemini Deep Deep Survey"[3] which led to several notable results on early galaxies including the evolution of elliptical galaxies and why a lot of them appear so remarkably old.[4]

He is currently a co-principal-investigator on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array telescope, which images ultra-low surface brightness galaxies at visible wavelengths of light.[5]

Abraham was the President of the Canadian Astronomical Society from 2016 to 2018.[6] He currently serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee[7] and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.[8]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ a b Abraham's departmental biography page
  2. ^ Galaxy morphology to I=25 mag in the Hubble Deep Field, 1996, MNRAS, 279 L47
  3. ^ Gemini Observatory - the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
  4. ^ Casey Kazan; The early universe puzzle[permanent dead link‍], The Daily Galaxy (June 15th 2011).
  5. ^ "Dragonfly - Dunlap Institute". Dunlap Institute. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  6. ^ "Past Officers and Directors of the Society - CASCA". casca.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  7. ^ "JWST Advisory Committee (JSTAC)". jwst.stsci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  8. ^ "RASC Toronto Centre Organization | RASC Toronto". rascto.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  9. ^ "OTA: Recipients — Site". www.artsci.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  10. ^ "Martin Award - CASCA". casca.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  11. ^ "U of T's Abraham becomes new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Dunlap Institute". Dunlap Institute. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  12. ^ "FELLOWS DIRECTORY | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  13. ^ "Roberto Abraham - using the Dragonfly Array telescope for new discoveries | Killam Laureates". killamlaureates.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-15.


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