James Dunlop

Professor J S Dunlop, FRS, FRSE, FInstP
- Position
- Professor
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 4323b
- Email: James.Dunlop [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3451
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
James is a member of the following School research institute:
Research interests
I am Head of School and Professor of Extra-Galactic Astronomy within the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, and also part of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance.
I am an elected Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Institute of Physics, and have previously held a European Research Council Advanced Fellowship and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
My research interests are in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology: galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic history of star formation, the first galaxies and cosmic reionization, and the connection between the growth of galaxies and black holes.
I have taught many courses at various levels within the University, most recently the Level-11 Radiation & Matter course, details of which can be found at http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jsd/Rad_Matt.html.
James has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Recent publications
- The ultraviolet continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z ≃ 8 − 16 from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ~ 8-15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 4, p. 6011-6040
- The VANDELS survey: a measurement of the average Lyman-continuum escape fraction of star-forming galaxies at z=3.5 DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 3, p. 3510-3525
- A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass, and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3 DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 1, p. 1262-1274
- , Astrophysical Journal, 929, 2, p. 1-12