Professor Brooke Simmons
Professor in AstrophysicsProfile
Professor Brooke Simmons is an Astrophysicist at Lancaster. She completed her PhD at Yale University, where she studied the growth and co-evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes over 11 billion years of cosmic time. After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, where she was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College and then the Henry Skynner JRF at Balliol College. She was then awarded an Einstein Fellowship by NASA, hosted at UC San Diego. Professor Simmons joined Lancaster Physics in 2018.
PhD Supervision Interests
For the most up-to-date information on available PhD projects, please see the "PhD Opportunities" section of the Lancaster Observational Astrophysics page. This is under the "Research > Astrophysics > Observational Astrophysics" section of the Physics & Astronomy site.Please note that all PhD applications must come through the Lancaster University admissions portal. Initial enquiries to the supervisors you are interested in working with are welcome, but we cannot accept official applications via email.
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FLF: Leading the Next generation of Data Driven Discoveries - renewal
01/02/2025 → 31/01/2028
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RAS travel grant (Izzy Garland)
01/02/2024 → 30/04/2024
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The Limits of Our Telescopes: The Case of NGC 5907 (Summer Student: Evie Day)
01/07/2023 → 30/09/2023
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Lancaster University Observational Astrophysics 2021-2024 (OAstro21)
01/04/2021 → 31/03/2025
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FLF:Leading the Next Generation of Data-Driven Discoveries
01/02/2021 → 31/01/2025
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Innovative Digital Citizen Science: Active Learning for Disaster Relief
01/01/2020 → 30/09/2020
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Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning for Disaster Relief and Resilience
01/04/2019 → 28/02/2021
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IAA: Astrophysical Analysis Tools for Disaster Relief & Resilience
01/01/1900 → …
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National Astronomy Meeting 2019
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Observational Astrophysics
Observational Astrophysics
- Observational Astrophysics