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Born | James Scott Dunlop |
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Thesis | The high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies and quasars (1987) |
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James Scott Dunlop FRS FRSE FInstP [3] [4] is a Scottish astronomer and academic. He is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy, an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. [1] [5]
Dunlop was born and raised on the Clyde coast. He studied physics at the University of Dundee, before moving to the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in astrophysics in 1988 for research on redshift in radio galaxies and quasars. [6]
After seven years working in England (where he helped establish the astrophysics group at Liverpool John Moores University [2]) he returned to Edinburgh[ when?] and has worked at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ever since[ when?], apart from two periods in Vancouver. From 2004-2008 and 2013-2019 he was Head of the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), and in 2019 he became Head of Edinburgh's School of Physics & Astronomy. [3]
Dunlop is an observational cosmologist who uses the world's largest telescopes (including telescopes in space such as the Hubble Space Telescope [7]) to study the chronology of the universe back to the formation and birth of the first galaxies. [3] His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), [8] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the European Research Council. [3]
Dunlop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016, [3] a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP),[ when?] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007. [4] He received the George Darwin Lectureship in 2014 and the Herschel Medal in 2016, both from the Royal Astronomical Society. [3]
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