Phil Diamond

Phil Diamond
Born Philip John Diamond
February 18, 1958[1]
Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom[1]
Residence Manchester
Citizenship UK
Nationality British
Fields Radio astronomy
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars (1982)
Known for
Website
www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pdiamond

Philip John Diamond is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010. He was the Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010[2] and in October 2012 he left CSIRO to become the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation.[3][4]

Education

Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and OH/IR stars.[1][5][6]

Research

Diamond's research focuses on astrophysical masers.[7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "DIAMOND, Dr Philip John". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ↑ "Dr Phil Diamond". ICRAR. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Spie (2014). "Philip Diamond plenary: The Square Kilometre Array: A Physics Machine for the 21st Century". SPIE Newsroom. doi:10.1117/2.3201407.12.
  4. ↑ "New leader for Australia's astronomy and space science research". CSIRO. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Diamond, Philip John (1982). MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  6. ↑ Phil Diamond's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  7. ↑ Vlemmings, W. H. T.; Diamond, P. J.; Imai, H. (2006). "A magnetically collimated jet from an evolved star". Nature 440 (7080): 58–60. doi:10.1038/nature04466. PMID 16511488.
  8. ↑ Herrnstein, J. R.; Moran, J. M.; Greenhill, L. J.; Diamond, P. J.; Inoue, M.; Nakai, N.; Miyoshi, M.; Henkel, C.; Riess#, A. (1999). "A geometric distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from orbital motions in a nuclear gas disk". Nature 400 (6744): 539. arXiv:astro-ph/9907013. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..539H. doi:10.1038/22972.
  9. ↑ Miyoshi, M.; Moran, J.; Herrnstein, J.; Greenhill, L.; Nakai, N.; Diamond, P.; Inoue, M. (1995). "Evidence for a black hole from high rotation velocities in a sub-parsec region of NGC4258". Nature 373 (6510): 127. doi:10.1038/373127a0.
  10. ↑ List of published papers