Catherine Heymans

Catherine Heymans
FRSE
Heymans in 2014
Born1978 or 1979 (age 45–46)[2]
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (MPhys)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Known forWeak gravitational lensing
AwardsGeorge Darwin Lectureship (2017)
Herschel Medal (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris
ThesisWeak gravitational lensing and intrinsic galaxy alignments
Doctoral advisor
  • Lance Miller[1]
Websitewww.roe.ac.uk/~heymans

Catherine Heymans FRSE (born 1978/1979) is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Heymans, Catherine (2003). Weak gravitational lensing and intrinsic galaxy alignments. ora.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 499971959. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.398117. Free access icon
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference THE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Catherine Heymans". roe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  4. ^ Boyle, B. J.; Shanks, T.; Croom, S. M.; Smith, R. J.; Miller, L.; Loaring, N.; Heymans, C. (2000). "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey -- I. The optical luminosity function of quasi-stellar objects". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 317 (4): 1014–1022. arXiv:astro-ph/0005368. Bibcode:2000MNRAS.317.1014B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03730.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 204924257.
  5. ^ Amendola, Luca; Appleby, Stephen; Avgoustidis, Anastasios; Bacon, David; Baker, Tessa; et al. (2018). "Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite". Living Reviews in Relativity. 21 (1): 2. arXiv:1206.1225. Bibcode:2018LRR....21....2A. doi:10.1007/s41114-017-0010-3. ISSN 2367-3613. PMC 5897888. PMID 29674941.
  6. ^ Heymans, Catherine; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Bacon, David; Berge, Joel; Bernstein, Gary; et al. (2006). "The Shear Testing Programme – I. Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 368 (3): 1323–1339. arXiv:astro-ph/0506112. Bibcode:2006MNRAS.368.1323H. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10198.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 16439414.