Stephen Warren

Stephen J. Warren
Nationality British
Fields Astronomy, astrophysics
Institutions Imperial College London
Alma mater

Stephen J. Warren is a professor of astronomy at Imperial College London.[1]

Education

Warren studied civil engineering, with a strong emphasis on geotechnics, at Cambridge University. He went on to complete a doctorate at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, which he finished in 1988.[1]

Career

Warren joined Imperial College London as a professor in 1994. He has since held an ESO fellowship and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Warren holds a particular expertise in the field of quasars. Since 2001, he has been greatly involved in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey.[1] He was the leader of the team responsible for the discovery of the most distant quasar found, ULAS J1120+0641.[2][3][4]

Warren has published over 70 papers in the field of astrophysics since 1987,[5] featuring in journals such as Nature.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Home | Prof. Stephen Warren | Imperial College London Astrophysics". astro.ic.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  2. ↑ information@eso.org. "Most Distant Quasar Found". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Discovery of the most distant quasar lets astronomers observe the nascent universe". www.myscience.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  4. ↑ Gleick, James (1988-01-19). "THE BIRTH OF QUASARS: VIOLENT COSMIC ACCIDENTS OFFER A CLUE". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  5. ↑ "Private Library for sjw4@imperial.ac.uk". adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
  6. ↑ Mortlock, Daniel J.; Warren, Stephen J.; Venemans, Bram P.; Patel, Mitesh; Hewett, Paul C.; McMahon, Richard G.; Simpson, Chris; Theuns, Tom; Gonzáles-Solares, Eduardo A. (2011-06-30). "A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085". Nature 474 (7353): 616–619. arXiv:1106.6088. Bibcode:2011Natur.474..616M. doi:10.1038/nature10159. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 21720366.
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