Bahram Mobasher
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Bahram Mobasher | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tehran, Iran |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom[1] |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Awards | Khwarizmi International Award (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Observational astronomy |
| Institutions | University of California, Riverside Space Telescope Science Institute European Space Agency |
| Thesis | An infrared study of a sample of optically selected galaxies (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Ellis |
| Website | faculty.ucr.edu |
Bahram Mobasher is an Iranian-born astronomer. He has been a Professor of Observational Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside since July 2007.[1][2]
Mobasher completed his PhD at Durham University, where he was supervised by Richard Ellis.[3] He was a postdoc at the University of Leicester (1989–1991), followed by a position as Instrument Scientist on the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) at Imperial College London (1992–1994).[1] He remained at Imperial College as a Research Fellow from 1995 to 2000.[1]
Career and research
From 2000 to 2007, he held dual appointments as a Staff Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA) and an Associate Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).[1] In 2005, Mobasher and his team found that the starburst galaxy HUDF-JD2 was 'more massive and more mature' than previously expected.[4] He was also a member of the Cosmic Evolution Survey.[5][6]
In 2013, Mobasher was part of the team of scientists that discovered the dwarf galaxy z8_GND_5296 using deep optical and infrared images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.[7][8][9]
