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Professor of Astronomy, University of Hertfordshire

Elias Brinks earned his doctorate in astrophysics at Leiden University in The Netherlands. After Postdoctoral Fellowships at the European Southern Observatory in Garching (Germany) and the Royal Greenwich Observatory (UK) he moved to the USA to take up a position as Associate Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico. He subsequently moved to “Old” Mexico, helping his Mexican colleagues to set up a Department of Astronomy at the University of Guanajuato. In 2002 he became staff scientist at INAOE, the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electronica in Puebla. Since September 2004 he is back in Europe, as Full Professor at the University of Hertfordshire where he currently is Associate Dean for Research in the School of Physics, Astronomy & Mathematics. His research focuses on nearby normal and dwarf galaxies, galaxy interactions, their formation and evolution.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Astronomy, University of Hertfordshire