Eric F. Bell

Eric F. Bell
Alma materGlasgow University (BSc)
Durham University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsObservational astronomy
ThesisExploring the star formation histories of galaxies (1999)
Doctoral advisorRichard Bower and Bernard Rauscher
Websitesites.lsa.umich.edu/ericbell/

Eric Findlay Bell is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.

Formerly a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Bell was a 2007 awardee of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on galaxy formation.

He was part of the team that discovered Andromeda XXXV, a satellite galaxy of Andromeda, in 2025.

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