Scott Croom
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- Durham University (PhD)
Scott Croom | |
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| Born | Scott Martin Croom |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Observational astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Thesis | Cosmology and large-scale structure from quasar redshift surveys (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tom Shanks |
| Website | www |
Scott Martin Croom is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney.[1]
Croom completed his PhD at Durham University in 1997. Following a postdoc at Imperial College London, he moved to Australia in 2000 to work at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, and joined the University of Sydney in 2006.[1]
He describes his main research interests as cosmology and galaxy formation and evolution.[1] He was the project leader of the team of astronomers that developed the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI), for which they received the inaugural Peter McGregor Prize from the Astronomical Society of Australia in 2016.[2][3][a]
In 2024, he was first author of a study that revealed age as the 'driving force' in determining how stars move within galaxies.[4][5][6]
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