Michael Garrett#
| Membership Number: | 5846 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/michael.garrett.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6714-9043 |
| Twitter: | @Mike_Garrett |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/magarrett1964 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-michael-a-garrett-47190123/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Sir Bernard Lovell Chair of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester
- 2016 Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA)
- 2016 Special Professor at the University of Leiden
- 2007 - 2016 General & Scientific Director of ASTRON (The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
- 2003 - 2007 Director Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
- 1998 - 2003 Head of EVN Support Group, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
- 1996 - 1998 Assistant to the Director, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
- 1995 - 1996 Temporary lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Manchester
- 1990 - 1992 Starlink Manager, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank
Fields of Scholarship
- SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Inteligence)
- Radio Astronomy techniques
- AGN and Starforming Galaxies
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Wide-field VLBI techniques
- Compact Objects near and far
- Distant Universe
- IR/radio correlation
- Radio, sub-mm and FIR astronomy
- Galaxy evolution
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)
- Real-time VLBI (e-VLBI)
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2018 Elected to Int. Academy of Astronautics (member)
- 2017 Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2015 Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society
- 2014 Rudolph Pesek Lecture, Int. Acad. of Astronautics Congress
- 2013 IBM Faculty Award, Leiden University
- 2012 Elected to Int. Academy of Astronautics (corresponding member)
