D. M. AlexanderProfessor

I am a professor of astronomy at Durham University and the deputy director of the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA). I obtained my PhD in 1999 at the University of Hertfordshire, under the supervison of Prof James Hough, and I have been a post-doctoral researcher at SISSA in Italy (1999-2000) and Pennsylvania State University in the USA (2000-2003), working with Prof Luigi Danese (on the ELAIS infrared survey) and Prof Niel Brandt (on the Chandra Deep Field-North survey), respectively. I was awarded an 8-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2003, which I initially held at Cambridge University in the UK (2003-2006) and then transferred to Durham University (2006-2010). I won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008 and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2012. I was made a Reader (associate professor) at Durham in April 2006 and I was promoted to Professor (full professor) in July 2011. In June 2014 I was selected to the list of the most highly cited researchers in space science for publications over the 2002-2012 period, a list that includes just ~100 astronomers world wide (~1% of all professional astronomers); you can access the list here. Note that, on the basis of this list, Durham is the joint 5th most successful institute in space sciences world wide and 1st in Europe.