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Timothy Davis  Mphys (Warw) DPhil (Oxon) FRAS

Dr Timothy Davis

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Mphys (Warw) DPhil (Oxon) FRAS

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Teams and roles for Timothy Davis

Overview

I am a Reader here at the Cardiff Hub for Astrophysics Research and Technology (CHART), part of the department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. My research focuses on the molecular ISM in extragalactic environments, black holes, star-formation, kinematics and feedback.

 

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Research interests

My research focuses on the molecular ISM in extragalactic environments, black holes, star-formation, kinematics and feedback.

I am a PI of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM), and in the management team for the ALMA large program VERTICO. I am a co-investigator in the CARS, ReveaLLAGN, MAUVE, HASHTAG and DOWSING projects. Previously PI of the ALMA Fornax Cluster Survey (AlFoCS) and the ATLAS3D CARMA survey.

PhD Supervision

  • Rhys Forster - "Star formation in the KILOGAS survey"
  • Tanya Kushwahaa - "Machine learning with GAIA"
  • Max Baker - "The link between mergers, misalignments and AGN fueling"
  • Jacob Elford - "AGN fueling and accretion discs in the millimetre"
  • James Dawson - "Machine learning to maximise the impact of ALMA"
  • Nikki Zabel - "The ALMA Fornax Cluster Survey: How do dense environments drive galaxy evolution?"
  • Eve North - "Monsters in the Dark:  Supermassive Black Hole Masses and Star formation in the WISDOM survey"

 

Teaching

I am the module lead for "PX2242: Astrophysics in Action", and "PX4231: Energy and Gas in Interstellar Space". I am Second Year Tutor and deputy module organiser of "PX3145: The Formation and Evolution of Stars".

Biography

Education and qualifications

  • 2011 DPhil (PhD) in Astrophysics, University of Oxford
  • 2008 MPhys in Physics, University of Warwick

Career overview

  • Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • 2019 - 2020: Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • 2015 - 2019: Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer, Cardiff University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • 2014 - 2015: Ernest Rutherford Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, Centre for Astrophysics Research
  • 2011 - 2014: ESO fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

Supervisions

  • Molecular gas in galaxies
  • Gas kinematics
  • Dark Matter
  • Extragalactic star formation
  • Black Holes
  • AGN
  • Post starburst galaxies
  • Early type galaxies
  • Simulations
  • Observations

Current supervision

News articles

Study helps shed light on how black holes regulate their environments

Black hole fashions stellar beads on a string

21 February 2024

Study helps shed light on how black holes regulate their environments

Scientists provided clearest evidence yet of mechanisms that lead to the shutdown of star formation in galaxies across the Universe

Astronomers investigating death of nearby galaxies find their culprit

02 November 2021

Scientists provided clearest evidence yet of mechanisms that lead to the shutdown of star formation in galaxies across the Universe

Scientists from Cardiff University peer 12 billion years into the past to reveal distant galaxy with an unexpected appearance

Portrait of young galaxy throws theory of galaxy formation on its head

11 February 2021

Scientists from Cardiff University peer 12 billion years into the past to reveal distant galaxy with an unexpected appearance

Astronomers zoom in on black hole with one of the lowest masses ever observed in nearby “ghost” galaxy

Breakthrough in deciphering birth of supermassive black holes

14 July 2020

Astronomers zoom in on black hole with one of the lowest masses ever observed in nearby “ghost” galaxy

First ever image of a black hole captured by network of telescopes from around the globe

Seeing the unseeable

10 April 2019

First ever image of a black hole captured by network of telescopes from around the globe

International team of scientists observe plumes of cold molecular gas sprayed out by a black hole a billion light-years from Earth

Cosmic fountain offers clues to how galaxies evolve

06 November 2018

International team of scientists observe plumes of cold molecular gas sprayed out by a black hole a billion light-years from Earth

Contact Details

Email [email protected]
Telephone +44 29225 12071
Campuses Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room N/2.18, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Galaxies
  • ISM
  • Black Holes
  • Kinematics