Professor Elias Brinks
PhD
Job title: Professor of Astronomy
Memberships and Appointments:
Elias Brinks is involved in front-line astronomical research, mainly dealing with the nearby universe. A large fraction of his time is devoted to knowledge transfer to the next generation of (budding) scientists through the supervision of graduate students and teaching at the undergraduate level. In addition to the usual administrative burden he is Secretary of the European Astronomical Society.
To date he has been leading and involved in a number of important research projects of which the most significant are the detection of supergiant shells in the neutral interstellar medium in the Andromeda galaxy; the study of neutral gas in extreme dwarf galaxies like II Zwicky 40; understanding the interacting "ocular" galaxies IC2163/NGC2207; THINGS, The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, the ultimate study of 34 nearby galaxies via observations of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI); and the detection of Dark Matter in the tidal debris of the ring galaxy NGC 5291.
List of publications
Research Interests
Extragalactic astronomy, i.e., normal and dwarf galaxies, galaxy interactions, their formation and evolution; radio astronomy.Teaching specialisms
Radio astronomy; cosmology and large scale structure; galaxies, their structure and dynamics.Collaborations and Projects
THINGS: The HI Nearby Galaxies Project
For details please see the THINGS Home Page
LITTLE THINGS: Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes
For details please see the LITTLE THINGS Home Page