Sergey Koposov

Professor S Koposov
- Position
- Professor, Personal Chair of Astronomy
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room C24
- Email: Sergey.Koposov [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8452
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Sergey is a member of the following School research institute:
Research interests
Galactic archaeology, Milky Way structure, Hyper-velocity stars, Large surveys, Spectroscopy, Statistics, Machine Learning, Big data
Biography
I graduated from the Physics/Astronomy department of Moscow State University in 2006. After that, I pursued my PhD at the University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Walter Rix. I defended my thesis on 'Understanding the Milky Way Halo through Large Surveys' in 2009. Following that, I joined the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge as a research associate. In 2016, I was awarded the Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to continue my work in Cambridge. Subsequently, in 2017, I moved to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, where I served as an assistant professor at the McWilliams Center for Cosmology. I was promoted to associate professor in 2020. During the same year, I moved to the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh as a Reader in Observational Astronomy. Additionally, I hold the title of Affiliated Lecturer at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
Sergey has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Highlighted publications
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491, 2, p. 2465-2480
- The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 3, p. 3508-3531
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 1, p. 1012-1031
- S5: Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab stream DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 4, p. 4936-4962