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Omar Almaini

Professor of Astrophysics, Faculty of Science

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Teaching Summary

I currently teach the following undergraduate modules:

PHYS4009 Extreme Astrophysics (Year 3/4)

PHYS4020 Research Techniques in Astronomy (Year 4)

I am also Postgraduate Director for the School for Physics of Astronomy, responsible for the training and welfare of our PhD students.

Research Summary

The aim of my research is to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. I focus on studying very distant galaxies, which we can observe in the act of formation. To this end I lead the… read more

Selected Publications

  • WILKINSON, AARON, ALMAINI, OMAR, WILD, VIVIENNE, MALTBY, DAVID, HARTLEY, WILLIAM G., SIMPSON, CHRIS and ROWLANDS, KATE, 2021. From starburst to quiescence: post-starburst galaxies and their large-scale clustering over cosmic time MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 504(3), 4533-4550
  • MALTBY, DAVID T., ALMAINI, OMAR, MCLURE, ROSS J., WILD, VIVIENNE, DUNLOP, JAMES, ROWLANDS, KATE, HARTLEY, WILLIAM G., HATCH, NINA A., SOCOLOVSKY, MIGUEL, WILKINSON, AARON, AMORIN, RICARDO, BRADSHAW, EMMA J., CARNALL, ADAM C., CASTELLANO, MARCO, CIMATTI, ANDREA, CRESCI, GIOVANNI, CULLEN, FERGUS, DE BARROS, STEPHANE, FONTANOT, FABIO, GARILLI, BIANCA, KOEKEMOER, ANTON M., MCLEOD, DEREK J., PENTERICCI, LAURA and TALIA, MARGHERITA, 2019. High-velocity outflows in massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 489(1), 1139-1151
  • ALMAINI, OMAR, WILD, VIVIENNE, MALTBY, DAVID, HARTLEY, WILLIAM, SIMPSON, CHRIS, HATCH, NINA, MCLURE, ROSS, DUNLOP, JAMES and ROWLANDS, KATE, 2017. Massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 are compact proto-spheroids MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 472(2), 1401-1412
  • KRISHNAN, CHARUTHA, ALMAINI, OMAR, HATCH, NINA A., WILKINSON, AARON, MALTBY, DAVID T., CONSELICE, CHRISTOPHER J., KOCEVSKI, DALE, SUH, HYEWON and WILD, VIVIENNE, 2020. The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 < z < 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 494(2), 1693-1704

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