Professor Jim Emerson

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests

• Survey Astronomy: I was Principal Investigator for the construction of the £36m VISTA the 'Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy' a 4m wide field survey telescope in Chile with infrared (ZYJHKs) field of view of 1.5 sq deg with 0.34 arc sec pixels, and work on results from its surveys.
• Star Formation
• Star clusters
• Galactic Structure
• Magellanic Clouds
• Dust grains
• My observational experience mainly in the InfraRed

Publications

My publications

see ADS and enter Emerson, J. - ignore the results on quantum topics from Joseph Emerson

Performance

My talks

pdfs of recent talks will apear here 

Grants

My Grants

Current:

• STFC     £1,600k Astronomy Unit Consolidated grant
• STFC     £   381k Doctoral training grant 2008
• STFC      £    18k VISTA Exploitation
• EC FP-7 £    66k Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories (EVALSO)

Past:

to be added