Simon Lilly

Simon Lilly

Simon Lilly in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born Simon J. Lilly
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Evolution of radio galaxies (1983)
Academic advisors Malcolm Longair
Known for
Notable awards
Website
www.astro.ethz.ch/lilly

Simon J. Lilly FRS is a Professor at the Institute for Astronomy in the Department of Physics at ETH Zürich.[4][5][6]

Education

Lilly was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics) in 1980.[6] He went on to study at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the evolution of radio galaxies supervised by Malcolm Longair.[7]

Career

Following his PhD, Lilly was a SERC/NATO postdoctoral research Fellow at Princeton University from 1984 to 1985. He was appointed Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii from 1985 to 1990, then Full Professor at the University of Toronto from 1990 to 2000. He served as Director General of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics from 2000 to 2002 before being appointed Professor at ETH Zurich in 2002. He currently (from 2015) serves as Head of the Department of Physics.[6]

Research

Lilly's research investigates galaxy formation and evolution.[1][2][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Awards and honours

Lilly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

“ Simon Lilly is an outstanding observational astronomer who has led many important studies of how normal galaxies evolved over the past 10 billion years. His early work provided the first convincing measurement of the star formation history of the Universe. This landmark result was influential in providing support for theoretically motivated models of galaxy assembly. He has also pioneered ambitious surveys coupling Hubble Space Telescope imaging with ground-based spectroscopy. By connecting data from various epochs, his imaginative work has provided valuable new insights into how the various galaxy populations change with cosmic time.[3] ”

References

  1. 1 2 Lilly, S. J.; Tresse, L.; Hammer, F.; Crampton, D.; Le Fevre, O. (1995). "The Canada-France Redshift Survey. VI. Evolution of the Galaxy Luminosity Function to Z approximately 1". The Astrophysical Journal 455: 108. doi:10.1086/176560.
  2. 1 2 Scoville, N.; Aussel, H.; Brusa, M.; Capak, P.; Carollo, C. M.; Elvis, M.; Giavalisco, M.; Guzzo, L.; Hasinger, G.; Impey, C.; Kneib, J. ‐P.; Lefevre, O.; Lilly, S. J.; Mobasher, B.; Renzini, A.; Rich, R. M.; Sanders, D. B.; Schinnerer, E.; Schminovich, D.; Shopbell, P.; Taniguchi, Y.; Tyson, N. D. (2007). "The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Overview". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 172: 1. doi:10.1086/516585.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Simon Lilly FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01.
  4. ↑ Simon Lilly's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  5. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  6. 1 2 3 "Lilly, Simon J., Prof.". ETH Zurich. Archived from the original on 2014-09-24.
  7. ↑ Lilly, Simon (1983). Evolution of radio galaxies (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
  8. ↑ Lilly, S. J.; Fevre, O. L.; Renzini, A.; Zamorani, G.; Scodeggio, M.; Contini, T.; Carollo, C. M.; Hasinger, G.; Kneib, J. ‐P.; Iovino, A.; Le Brun, V.; Maier, C.; Mainieri, V.; Mignoli, M.; Silverman, J.; Tasca, L. A. M.; Bolzonella, M.; Bongiorno, A.; Bottini, D.; Capak, P.; Caputi, K.; Cimatti, A.; Cucciati, O.; Daddi, E.; Feldmann, R.; Franzetti, P.; Garilli, B.; Guzzo, L.; Ilbert, O.; et al. (2007). "ZCOSMOS: A Large VLT/VIMOS Redshift Survey Covering 0 <z< 3 in the COSMOS Field". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 172: 70. doi:10.1086/516589.
  9. ↑ Ilbert, O.; Capak, P.; Salvato, M.; Aussel, H.; McCracken, H. J.; Sanders, D. B.; Scoville, N.; Kartaltepe, J.; Arnouts, S.; Floc'h, E. L.; Mobasher, B.; Taniguchi, Y.; Lamareille, F.; Leauthaud, A.; Sasaki, S.; Thompson, D.; Zamojski, M.; Zamorani, G.; Bardelli, S.; Bolzonella, M.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Caputi, K. I.; Carollo, C. M.; Contini, T.; Cook, R.; Coppa, G.; Cucciati, O.; de la Torre, S.; et al. (2009). "COSMOS PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS WITH 30-BANDS FOR 2-deg2". The Astrophysical Journal 690 (2): 1236. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1236.
  10. ↑ Eales, S.; Lilly, S.; Gear, W.; Dunne, L.; Bond, J. R.; Hammer, F.; Le Fevre, O.; Crampton, D. (1999). "The Canada‐UK Deep Submillimeter Survey: First Submillimeter Images, the Source Counts, and Resolution of the Background". The Astrophysical Journal 515 (2): 518. doi:10.1086/307069.
  11. ↑ Gardner, J. P.; Mather, J. C.; Clampin, M.; Doyon, R.; Greenhouse, M. A.; Hammel, H. B.; Hutchings, J. B.; Jakobsen, P.; Lilly, S. J.; Long, K. S.; Lunine, J. I.; McCaughrean, M. J.; Mountain, M.; Nella, J.; Rieke, G. H.; Rieke, M. J.; Rix, H. W.; Smith, E. P.; Sonneborn, G.; Stiavelli, M.; Stockman, H. S.; Windhorst, R. A.; Wright, G. S. (2006). "The James Webb Space Telescope". Space Science Reviews 123 (4): 485. doi:10.1007/s11214-006-8315-7.
  12. ↑ Lilly, S. J. (1991). "Cosmology with Galaxies at High Redshifts". Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation. p. 233. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3510-8_23. ISBN 978-94-010-5552-9.
  13. ↑ Hill, G. J.; Lilly, S. J. (1991). "A change in the cluster environments of radio galaxies with cosmic epoch". The Astrophysical Journal 367: 1. doi:10.1086/169597.
  14. ↑ Lilly, S.; Schade, D.; Ellis, R.; Le Fevre, O.; Brinchmann, J.; Tresse, L.; Abraham, R.; Hammer, F.; Crampton, D.; Colless, M.; Glazebrook, K.; Mallen‐Ornelas, G.; Broadhurst, T. (1998). "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the CFRS and LDSS Redshift Surveys. II. Structural Parameters and the Evolution of Disk Galaxies toz∼ 1". The Astrophysical Journal 500: 75. doi:10.1086/305713.
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