Gerard F. Gilmore#
| Membership Number: | 2244 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/content/professor.gerard.f.gilmore.frs |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Chair, Senior Academic Promotions Committee, Physics & Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 2010 - present Chair, Degree Committee of Physics and Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 2010 - present Chair, Faculty Board of Physics & Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1999 - 2007 Deputy Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- 2000 - present Professor of Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University
- 1995 - 2000 Reader in Astrophysics, Cambridge University
- 1991 - 1995 Assistant Director of Research, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- 1989 - 1991 Senior Assistant in Research, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- 1987 - 1991 The Royal Society Smithson Fellow, King's College & Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University
- 1984 - 1987 Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge
- 1984 - 1989 SERC Advanced Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- 1982 - 1985 Visiting Associate, Mt Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories, Ca, USA
- 1979 - 1984 Senior Research Fellow, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Galactic archaeology
- Dark matter
- Structure and evolution of the galaxy
- Galactic chemical evolution
- Stellar dynamics
- Stellar spectroscopy
- Stellar spectroscopic surveys
- Gaia
Honours and Awards
- Samuel Locker Award (UK)
- John Couch Adams Astronomer, Cambridge
- Smithson Fellow, The Royal Society London & King’s College, Cambridge
- Fellow, Academia Europaea
- Fellow, Institute of Physics
- Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and King’s College, Cambridge
- Neils Bohr Lecturer, NORDITA
- Argelander Lecturer, Bonn
- Einstein year UNESCO international lecturer,
- Bernard Lovell Lecturer
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)
- Chalonge Medal (2013)
