Simon D. M. White#
| Membership Number: | 2634 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~swhite |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 - present: Director, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysik, Garching
- 1994 - present: Scientific Member, Max Planck Society
- 1992 - 1994 Director, European Association for Research in Astronomy
- 1992 - present: Research Professor, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
- 1991 - 1994 Sheepshanks Reader in Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- 1990 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem
- 1987 - 1991 Professor/Astronomer, Steward Obs., University of Arizona
- 1984 - 1987 Associate Professor/Astronomer, Steward Obs., University of Arizona
- 1984 Member, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
- 1982 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1981 - 1984 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley
- 1980 - 1984 Senior Fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley
- 1980 Jan-June Attache au CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
- 1979 - 1980 Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- 1978 Sept.-Dec Visiting Research Astronomer, NRAO, Charlottesville, Virginia
- 1977 - 1978 Lindemann Fellow, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
- 1977 Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge. Thesis: The Clustering of Galaxies, supervisor D. Lynden-Bell
- 1974 M.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Toronto
- 1972 B.A. in Mathematics, from Jesus College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Galactic structure
- Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology
- Structure, formation and evolution of galaxies
- Galaxy clusters and the large-scale distribution of galaxies
- Nature and distribution of dark matter
- Numerical simulations of the formation of galaxies and larger structures
Honours and Awards
- 1984 - 1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator
- 1986 Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- 1996 Grubb Parsons Lecturer, University of Durham
- 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1998George Darwin Lecturer of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1999 Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, B.C.
- Max-Planck-Forschungspreis 2000 fr internationale Kooperation
- 2003 Sackler Lecturer, Physics Dept., Princeton University
- 2005 Blaauw Lecturer, Groningen University
- 2005 Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Institute of Physics/AAS
- 2005 Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society
- 2005 Fellow, Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2007 Honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) Durham University
- 2007 Foreign Associate of the USA National Academy of Sciences
- Dirk Brouwer Award 2008 of the Dynamical Division of the AAS
- Oort Professorship 2008, Leiden University
- European Latsis Prize 2008, European Science Foundation
- 2009 Member, Academia Europeae
- Max-Born-Preis 2010, Institute of Physics (IOP) and German Physical Society (DPG)
- 2010 Honorary Citizenship of the City of Padua
- 2011 Member, European Physical Society
- 2011 Gruber Cosmology Prize
- 2012 Marsilius-Vorlesung, Universität Heidelberg
- 2015 Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Science
- 2017 Shawn Prize in Astronomy
