Contact:
Sergey E. Koposov
Professor, Personal Chair of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Affiliated associate professor, University of Cambridge
Office: C24, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ
Phone: +44 131 668 8452
Email: skoposov (AT) ed (DOT) ac (DOT) uk
To students
I am accepting new PhD students. I am also happy to chat to any PhD or undergraduate students interested in galactic archaelogy, statistics or machine learning. Every year I usually propose several MPhys and Senior Honour projects.To postdocs
If you are looking to apply for one of the fellowships (Rutherford, Royal Society or others) and are interested in doing it in Edinburgh and work in the general area of Galactic archaeology, please check this page for a list of opportunities, and feel free to contact me to help with the application process and sponsor your application. Keep in mind that many of the applications have an internal (within Edinburgh) selection process, so please contact me in advance. On top of fellowships listed earlier, other options are: Chancellor fellowship, Elizabeth Gardner fellowship.Research interests:
- Dwarf galaxies
- Stellar streams (See S5 project)
- Milky Way structure
- Gaia
- Stellar dynamics
- Stellar chemistry
- Binary stars
- Hyper-velocity stars
- Large surveys
- Databases
- Data mining
- Statistics
