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Timothy Davis  DPhil (Oxon) Mphys (Warw) FRAS

Dr Timothy Davis DPhil (Oxon) Mphys (Warw) FRAS

Senior Lecturer

School of Physics and Astronomy

Email
DavisT@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29225 12071
Campuses
Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room N/2.18, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am a Senior Lecturer here at Cardiff University in the department of Physics and Astronomy. My research focuses on the molecular ISM in extragalactic environments, black holes, star-formation, kinematics and feedback.

 

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Research

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

  • 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 module lead for "PX2235: Synoptic Astrophysics", Second Year Tutor, and deputy module organiser of "PX1228: Introduction to Astrophysics" and "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

Jacob Elford

Mr Jacob Elford

Research student