Luke O'Connor Drury#
| Membership Number: | 2315 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dias.ie/2010/08/19/astrostaff-ld |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9257-2270 |
| Twitter: | @Luke_Drury |
| Facebook: | Luke Drury |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 Senior Professor, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- 1979-1986 Research assistant, MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg
- 1979 PhD Astrophysics, Univ. Cambridge, England
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational astrophysics
- Interstellar gas dynamics
- Plasma astrophysics
- Origin of cosmic rays
- Particle acceleration
Honours and Awards
- Shakti P Duggal Award of the Commission on Cosmic Rays of the IUPAP
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (President of the Royal Irish Academy from 2011 to 2014)
