Sergey Koposov
Dr S Koposov
- Position
- Reader in Observational 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, Statistics, Machine Larning
Biography
I have graduated from the Physics/Astronomy department of Moscow State University in 2006. After that I did my PhD in the University of Heidelberg with Prof. Hans-Walter Rix. I have defended my thesis on 'Understanding the Milky Way Halo through Large Surveys' in 2009. I then joined the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge as a research associate. In 2016 I received the Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to continue working in Cambridge. In 2017 I moved to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA as an assistant professor in the McWilliams Center for Cosmology. I was promoted to associate professor in 2020. In the same year I moved to Institute of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh as a Reader in Observational Astronomy.
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
- , Astrophysical Journal, 911, 2, p. 1-24