Professor Jim Emerson
Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics
Email: j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 231
Research
Research Interests:
My research interests
- Survey Astronomy: I was Principal Investigator for the construction of the £36m VISTA the 'Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy' a 4m wide field survey telescope in Chile with infrared (ZYJHKs) field of view of 1.5 sq deg with 0.34 arc sec pixels, and work on results from its surveys.
- Star Formation
- Star clusters
- Galactic Structure
- Magellanic Clouds
- Dust grains
- My observational experience mainly in the InfraRed