Andrew Fabian

Andrew Fabian OBE FRS
86th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office 2008–2010
Preceded by	Michael Rowan-Robinson
Succeeded by	Roger Davies
Personal details
Born	Andrew Christopher Fabian (1948-02-20) 20 February 1948 (age 76)[1]
Nationality	British
Spouse	Carolin Crawford ​ (m. 1991)​ [2]
Website	www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/andrew-fabian
Education	Daventry Grammar school[1]
Alma mater	King's College London (BSc) University College, London (PhD)
Awards	Bruno Rossi Prize (2001) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2008) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2012) Bruce Medal (2016) Kavli Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University of Cambridge
Thesis	The small scale isotropy of the cosmic X-ray background (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Peter W. Sanford[3]
Doctoral students	Niel Brandt Carolin Crawford[3][4] Tiziana Di Matteo[5] Christopher S. Reynolds

Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.^[6]