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Timothy Davis  DPhil (Oxon) Mphys (Warw) FRAS

Dr Timothy Davis

(he/him)

DPhil (Oxon) Mphys (Warw) FRAS

Reader

School of Physics and Astronomy

Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

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

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 the module lead for "PX2235: Synoptic Astrophysics", and from 2023/2024 will take over "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

Jacob Elford

Jacob Elford

Research student

Helena Faustino Vieira

Helena Faustino Vieira

Research student

Max Baker

Max Baker

Research student

Tanya Kushwahaa

Tanya Kushwahaa

Research student

Contact Details

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

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Galaxies
  • ISM
  • Black Holes
  • Kinematics