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Extragalactic Astrophysics & Observational Cosmology Group
Adam Amara
Postal Address: ETH Hoenggerberg Campus Physics Department, HIT J 12.2 CH-8093 Zurich Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 44 633 7578 Fax: +41 (0) 44 633 1238 email: adam.amara@phys.ethz.ch
Curriculum Vitae
Education: 2005 Ph.D in Astrophysics; Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK 2001 MPhys in Physics; University of York, York, UK
Employment: 2008 - Present Zwicky Prize Fellow, Institue of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2007 - 2008 Research Associate, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2005 - 2007 Research Engineer, CEA Service d'Astrophysique, France
Awards: 2004 Zwicky Prize Fellowship, ETH-Zurich 2001 ESA Fellowship to the International Space University (ISU) 1999 The University of Califonia Education Abroad Program
Research Interests
Optimisation and Design of Euclid (proposed ESA cosmic vision program) Gravitational Lensing (Weak and Strong) - gravitational lensing wiki Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Structure Formation N-Body Numerical Simulations General Cosmology and Web Interfacing - icosmo.org
Selected Papers
A full and interactive biblography is availbale through ADS Measuring Dark Matter Substructure with Galaxy-Galaxy Flexion Statistics Bacon, D., Amara, A., Read, J., Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) (arXiv:0909.5133) (2009). Cosmic Shear Systematics: Software-Hardware Balance Amara, A., Réfrégier, A., Paulin-Henriksson, S., Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) (arXiv:0905.3176) (2009). Fisher Matrix Decomposition for Dark Energy Prediction Kitching, T. & Amara, A., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Volume 398, Issue 4, pp. 2134-2142 (2009). Systematic Bias in Cosmic Shear: Beyond the Fisher Matrix Amara, A. & Réfrégier, A., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Volume 391, Issue 1, pp. 228-236 (2008). Shape Measurement Systematics for Weak Lensing Paulin-Henriksson, S., Amara, A., Voigt, L., Réfrégier, A., S. Bridle S., Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), Volume 484, Issue 1, pp.67-77 (2008). Optimized Weak Lensing Surveys Amara, A. & Réfrégier, A., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Volume 381, Issue 3, pp. 1018-1026 (2007). Photo-z for Weak Lensing Tomography From Space: the Role of Optical and Near-IR Photometry Abdalla F. B., Amara A., Capak P., S. Cypriano E., Lahav O., Rhodes J., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Volume 387, Issue 3, pp. 969-986 (2007). Simulations of Strong Lensing with Substructure Amara, A., Metcalf, R. B., Cox, T.J., Ostriker, J., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Volume 367, Issue 4, pp. 1367-1378 (2006).
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