Catherine Heymans

Catherine Heymans
FRSE
Heymans in 2014
Born1978 (age 47–48)
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (MPhys)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Known forWeak gravitational lensing
AwardsGeorge Darwin Lectureship (2017)
Herschel Medal (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris
ThesisWeak gravitational lensing and intrinsic galaxy alignments
Doctoral advisor
  • Lance Miller
Websitewww.roe.ac.uk/~heymans

Catherine Elizabeth Heymans FRSE (born 1978) is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

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