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