Don Pollacco#
| Membership Number: | 7424 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/pollacco/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9850-9697 |
| Publication Link: | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=(database%3Aastronomy%20OR%20database%3Aphysics)&p_=0&q=author%3A%22Pollacco%2C%20Don%22&sort=citation_count%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Director for the Warwick Centre for Space Domain Awareness, University of Warwick, UK
- 2012 - present Professor of Astrophysics, University of Warwick, UK
- 2007 - 2012 Professor of Astrophysics, Queens University Belfast, UK
- 2000 - 2007 Lecturer and Reader in Astrophysics, Queens University Belfast, UK
- 1995 - 1999 Staff Astronomer, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
- 1993 - 1995 Lecturer in Physics, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoc, University of St Andrews, UK
- 1986 - 1990 PhD, University of St Andrews, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Astronomical instrumentation
- Exoplanets - detection and bulk characterisation
- Space Domain Awareness
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2029 ERC Advanced Grant "The Digital Telescope"
- 2018 - 2021 Royal Society, Wolfson Merit Award
- 2017 University of Warwick Researcher of the Year Award
- 2010 Royal Astronomical Society Team Award "The WASP Project"
- 2008 - 2009 Leverhulme Fellowship
