Roger Davies#
| Membership Number: | 5293 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/davies |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Director of the Oxford Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys, Physics Dept., University of Oxford
- 2011 - 2014 & 2004-05 Head of Astrophysics, Physics Dept., University of Oxford
- 2005 - 2010 Head of Physics Department, University of Oxford
- 2002 Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Physics Department & Christ Church, University of Oxford
- 1994 - 2002 Professor & Head of Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Durham
- 1992 - 1994 University Lecturer in Physics and Fellow of St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
- 1988 - 1994 UK Project Scientist for the 8m Gemini Telescopes, University of Oxford
- 1982 - 1988 Staff member (with tenure from 1987), National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona
- 1979 - 1982 Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College & Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- 1979 - 1980 Lindemann Fellow, Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Galaxy Evolution: stellar populations
- Astronomical instrumentation: large telescopes
- Cosmology: the distance scale
- Astronomical instrumentation: integral field spectrographs
- Galaxy Evolution: dynamics
- Cosmology: large scale motions of galaxies
- Galaxy Evolution: early type galaxies
Honours and Awards
- 2017 President of the European Astronomical Society
- 2013 RAS Group Achievement Award for the SAURON survey
- 2012 & 2015 Australian Astronomical Observatory Distinguished Visitor
- 2010 - 2012 President Royal Astronomical Society
- 2009 Fellow of University College London
- 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa, University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France
- 2006 Visiting Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China
- 2006 Dr. Lee’s Reader in Physics, Christ Church, Oxford
- 2006 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2001 Institute for Scientific Information “Highly Cited Researcher
- 2001 - 2004 PPARC Senior Research Fellow
- 2001 Daiwa-Adrian Foundation Prize.
- 1999 - 2000 Leverhulme University Research Fellow
