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Thesis The high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies and quasars (1987) Alma maters University of Dundee (BSc), University of Edinburgh (PhD) Institutions Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Liverpool John Moores University Notable awards Fellow of the Institute of Physics | ||
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James Scott Dunlop FRS FRSE FInstP is a Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy and Head of the Institute for Astronomy (IfA), an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Education and early life
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.
Career
After seven years working in England (where he helped establish the Astrophysics group at Liverpool John Moores University) he returned to Edinburgh and has worked at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ever since, apart from two periods in Vancouver. From 2004 to 2008 he was Head of the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), and has recently taken this on for a second term.
Research
Jim is an observational cosmologist who uses the world's largest telescopes (including telescopes in space such as the Hubble Space Telescope) to study the chronology of the universe back to the formation and birth of the first galaxies. His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the European Research Council.
Awards and honours
Dunlop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007. He received the George Darwin Lectureship in 2014 and the Herschel Medal in 2016, both from the Royal Astronomical Society.