Elias Brinks

Elias Brinks earned his doctorate at Leiden University in The Netherlands with a study of the neutral hydrogen distribution in Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy. Following his Ph.D., he spent almost 3 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at ESO Garching and other 3 years as a Senior Research Associate at the former Royal Greenwich Observatory. He moved then to USA to take up a position as Associate Scientist at the NRAO-VLA in Socorro, New Mexico, where he worked for the better part of 6 years. He subsequently moved to “Old” Mexico, helping his Mexican colleagues to set up a Department of Astronomy at the University of Guanajuato and, as staff scientist at INAOE in Puebla, to contribute to efforts to build the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT). Since September 2004, he is back in Europe, as Full Professor at the University of Hertfordshire. His research focuses on nearby normal and dwarf galaxies, galaxy interactions, their formation and evolution, exploiting the latest observational tools, notably those that operate at longer wavelengths, that is, the radio domain.

Biography Updated on 4 November 2008

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