Associate Professor Christian Wolf
RSAA Honours program convenor
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About
Jan 1999: PhD at Max-Planck-Institute of Astronomy Heidelberg, Germany
until 2001: Research Fellow at MPIA Heidelberg, PI of COMBO-17 survey
2001-2013: University of Oxford, UK (2004-2009 STFC Advanced Fellow)
from 2013: RSAA Mt Stromlo, ANU, Canberra, Australia
2016-2018: ANU Node Leader of CAASTRO (ARC Centre of Excellence in All-sky Astrophysics)
Affiliations
Research interests
Growth of supermassive black holes from the early universe until today
Properties of accretion discs around supermassive black holes
LSST, eROSITA, SkyMapper, COMBO-17
Wide-field sky surveys, object classification and photometric redshift estimation
Optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events
Galaxy evolution throughout the history of the Universe
Projects
- Dust in the Milky Way Galaxy, Supervisor
- Observing black-hole formation in gravitational-wave events, Supervisor
- Red spirals - how star formation fades in galaxies, Supervisor
- The rise of supermassive black holes, Supervisor
Location
Duffield - Upper - D116