Biography

Employment

• 2009 - Present: Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sussex
• 2003 - 2009: Reader in Astronomy, University of Sussex
• 2000 - 2003: Lecturer in Astronomy, University of Sussex
• 1993 - 1999: Research Associate, Imperial College, London
• 1993 - 1993: Research Associate, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London

Education

• 1989 - 1993: Ph.D. in Astrophysics, University of London (Queen Mary & Westfield College)
• 1986 - 1989: B.A. (Hons) Class 2:1 in Physics, University of Oxford (Balliol College)
• 1978 - 1985: Monmouth School, Monmouth, Gwent
• 1974 - 1978: Pembridge Primary School, Pembridge, Hereford & Worcs.

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Role

• Coordinator of Herschel Multi-Tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES)
• Director of Astronmy Centre
• Director of Research Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Postgraduate Admissions, Astronomy Centre

I am usually available in my office Wednesday from 12.00-13.00.

Symeonidis, M, Vaccari, M, Berta, S, Page, M J, Lutz, D, Arumugam, V, Aussel, H, Bock, J, Boselli, A, Buat, V, Capak, P L, Clements, D L, Conley, A, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, Dowell, C D, Farrah, D, Franceschini, A, Giovannoli, E, Glenn, J, Griffin, M, Hatziminaoglou, E, Hwang, H-S, Ibar, E, Ilbert, O, Ivison, R J, Le Floc'h, E, Lilly, S, Kartaltepe, J S, Magnelli, B, Magdis, G, Marchetti, L, Nguyen, H T, Nordon, R, O'Halloran, B, Oliver, S J, Omont, A, Papageorgiou, A, Patel, H, Pearson, C P, Pérez-Fournon, I, Pohlen, M, Popesso, P, Pozzi, F, Rigopoulou, D, Riguccini, L, Rosario, D, Roseboom, I G, Rowan-Robinson, M, Salvato, M, Schulz, B, Scott, Douglas, Seymour-Smith, N, Shupe, D L, Smith, A J, Valtchanov, I, Wang, L, Xu, C K, Zemcov, M and Wuyts, S (2013) The Herschel census of infrared SEDs through cosmic time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431 (3). pp. 2317-2340. ISSN 0035-8711

Hopkins, A M, Driver, S P, Brough, S, Owers, M S, Bauer, A E, Gunawardhana, M L P, Cluver, M E, Colless, M, Foster, C, Lara-Lopez, M A, Roseboom, I, Sharp, R, Steele, O, Thomas, D, Baldry, I K, Brown, M J I, Liske, J, Norberg, P, Robotham, A S G, Bamford, S, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Drinkwater, M J, Loveday, J, Meyer, M, Peacock, J A, Tuffs, R, Agius, N, Alpaslan, M, Andrae, E, Cameron, E, Cole, S, Ching, J H Y, Christodoulou, L, Conselice, C, Croom, S, Cross, N J G, De Propris, R, Delhaize, J, Dunne, L, Eales, S, Ellis, S, Frenk, C S, Graham, A W, Grootes, M W, Haussler, B, Heymans, C, Hill, D, Hoyle, B, Hudson, M, Jarvis, M, Johansson, J, Jones, D H, van Kampen, E, Kelvin, L, Kuijken, K, Lopez-Sanchez, A, Maddox, S, Madore, B, Maraston, C, McNaught-Roberts, T, Nichol, R C, Oliver, S, Parkinson, H, Penny, S, Phillipps, S, Pimbblet, K A, Ponman, T, Popescu, C C, Prescott, M, Proctor, R, Sadler, E M, Sansom, A E, Seibert, M, Staveley-Smith, L, Sutherland, W, Taylor, E, Van Waerbeke, L, Vazquez-Mata, J A, Warren, S, Wijesinghe, D B, Wild, V and Wilkins, S (2013) Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430 (3). pp. 2047-2066. ISSN 0035-8711

Jarvis, M J, Bonfield, D G, Bruce, V A., Geach, J E, McAlpine, K, McLure, R J, Gonzalez-Solares, E, Irwin, M, Lewis, J, Yoldas, A K, Andreon, S, Cross, N J G, Emerson, J P, Dalton, G, Dunlop, J S, Hodgkin, S T, Le, F O, Karouzos, M, Meisenheimer, K, Oliver, S, Rawlings, S, Simpson, C, Smail, I, Smith, D J B, Sullivan, M, Sutherland, W, White, S V and Zwart, J T L (2013) The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428 (2). pp. 1281-1295. ISSN 0035-8711

Oliver, S J, Bock, J, Altieri, B, Amblard, A, Arumugam, V, Aussel, H, Babbedge, T, Beelen, A, Bethermin, M, Blain, A, Boselli, A, Bridge, C, Brisbin, D, Buat, V, Burgarella, D, Castro-Rodriguez, N, Cava, A, Chanial, P, Cirasuolo, M, Clements, D L, Conley, A, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, Dowell, C D, Dubois, E. N., Dwek, E, Dye, S, Eales, S, Elbaz, D, Farrah, D, Feltre, A, Ferrero, P, Fiolet, N., Fox, M, Franceschini, A, Gear, W, Giovannoli, E, Glenn, J, Gong, Y, Gonzalez-Solares, E A, Griffin, M, Halpern, M, Harwit, M, Hatziminaoglou, E, Heinis, S, Hurley, P., Hwang, H S, Hyde, A., Ibar, E, Ilbert, O, Isaak, K, Ivison, R J, Lagache, G, Le Floc'h, E., Levenson, L, Faro, B. Lo, Lu, N, Madden, S, Maffei, B, Magdis, G, Mainetti, G, Marchetti, L, Marsden, G, Marshall, J, Mortier, A M J, Nguyen, H T, O'Halloran, B, Omont, A, Page, M J, Panuzzo, P, Papageorgiou, A, Patel, H, Pearson, C P, Perez-Fournon, I, Pohlen, M, Rawlings, J I, Raymond, G, Rigopoulou, D, Riguccini, L, Rizzo, D, Rodighiero, G, Roseboom, I G, Rowan-Robinson, M, Sanchez-Portal, M, Schulz, B, Scott, Douglas, Seymour, N, Shupe, D L, Smith, A J, Stevens, J A, Symeonidis, M, Trichas, M, Tugwell, K E, Vaccari, M, Valtchanov, I, Vieira, J D, Viero, M, Vigroux, L, Wang, L, Ward, R, Wardlow, J, Wright, G, Xu, C K and Zemcov, M (2012) The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey: HerMES. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424 (3). pp. 1614-1635. ISSN 0035-8711

Page, M J, Symeonidis, M, Vieira, J D, Altieri, B, Oliver, S J and et al, (2012) The suppression of star formation by powerful active galactic nuclei. Nature, 485 (7397). pp. 213-216. ISSN 0028-0836

Xu, C K, Shupe, D L, Béthermin, M, Aussel, H, Berta, S, Bock, J, Bridge, C, Conley, A, Cooray, A, Elbaz, D, Franceschini, A, Le Floc'h, E, Lu, N, Lutz, D, Magnelli, B, Marsden, G, Oliver, S J, Pozzi, F, Riguccini, L, Schulz, B, Scoville, N, Vaccari, M, Vieira, J D, Wang, L and Zemcov, M (2012) Cosmic evolution of star formation enhancement in close major-merger galaxy pairs since z=1. Astrophysical Journal, 760 (1). p. 72. ISSN 0004-637X

Roseboom, I G, Bunker, A, Sumiyoshi, M, Wang, L, Dalton, G, Akiyama, M, Bock, J, Bonfield, D, Buat, V, Casey, C, Chapin, E, Clements, D L, Conley, A, Curtis-Lake, E, Cooray, A, Dunlop, J S, Farrah, D, Ham, S J, Ibar, E, Iwamuro, F, Kimura, M, Lewis, I, Macaulay, E, Magdis, G, Maihara, T, Marsden, G, Mauch, T, Moritani, Y, Ohta, K, Oliver, S J, Page, M J, Schulz, B, Scott, Douglas, Symeonidis, M, Takato, N, Tamura, N, Totani, T, Yabe, K and Zemcov, M (2012) FMOS near-IR spectroscopy of Herschel-selected galaxies: star formation rates, metallicity and dust attenuation at z∼ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426 (3). pp. 1782-1792. ISSN 0035-8711

Mitchell-Wynne, K, Cooray, A, Gong, Y, Béthermin, M, Bock, J, Franceschini, A, Glenn, J, Griffin, M, Halpern, M, Marchetti, L, Oliver, S J, Page, M J, P'erez-Fournon, I, Schulz, B, Scott, D, Smidt, J, Smith, A, Vaccari, M, Vigroux, L, Wang, L, Wardlow, J L and Zemcov, M (2012) HerMES: a statistical measurement of the redshift distribution of Herschel-spire sources using the cross-correlation technique. Astrophysical Journal, 753 (1). p. 23. ISSN 0004-637X

Hurley, P D, Oliver, S, Farrah, D, Wang, L and Efstathiou, A (2012) Principal component analysis and radiative transfer modelling of Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra of ultraluminous infrared galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424 (3). pp. 2069-2078. ISSN 0035-8711

Mauduit, J-C, Lacy, M, Farrah, D, Surace, J A, Jarvis, M, Oliver, S, Maraston, C, Vaccari, M, Marchetti, L, Zeimann, G, Gonzáles-Solares, E A, Pforr, J, Petric, A O, Henriques, B, Thomas, P A, Afonso, J, Rettura, A, Wilson, G, Falder, J T, Geach, J E, Huynh, M, Norris, R P, Seymour, N, Richards, G T, Stanford, S A, Alexander, D M, Becker, R H, Best, P N, Bizzocchi, L, Bonfield, D, Castro, N, Cava, A, Chapman, S, Christopher, N, Clements, D L, Covone, G, Dubois, N, Dunlop, J S, Dyke, E, Edge, A, Ferguson, H C, Foucaud, S, Franceschini, A, Gal, R R, Grant, J K, Grossi, M, Hatziminaoglou, E, Hickey, S, Hodge, J A, Huang, J-S, Ivison, R J, Kim, M, LeFevre, O, Lehnert, M, Lonsdale, C J, Lubin, L M, McLure, R J, Messias, H, Martínez-Sansigre, A, Mortier, A M J, Nielsen, D M, Ouchi, M, Parish, G, Perez-Fournon, I, Pierre, M, Rawlings, S, Readhead, A, Ridgway, S E, Rigopoulou, D, Romer, A K, Roseboom, I G, Rottgering, H J A, Rowan-Robinson, M, Sajina, A, Simpson, C J, Smail, I, Squires, G K, Stevens, J A, Taylor, R, Trichas, M, Urrutia, T, van Kampen, E, Verma, A and Xu, C K (2012) The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS): survey definition and goals (PASP, 124, 714, [2012]). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124 (920). pp. 1135-1136. ISSN 0004-6280

Casey, C M, Berta, S, Béthermin, M, Bock, J, Bridge, C, Burgarella, D, Chapin, E, Chapman, S C, Clements, D L, Conley, A, Conselice, C J, Cooray, A, Farrah, D, Hatziminaoglou, E, Ivison, R J, Le Floc'h, E, Lutz, D, Magdis, G, Magnelli, B, Oliver, S J, Page, M J, Pozzi, F, Rigopoulou, D, Riguccini, L, Roseboom, I G, Sanders, D B, Scott, Douglas, Seymour, N, Valtchanov, I, Vieira, J D, Viero, M and Wardlow, J (2012) A population of z> 2 far-infrared Herschel-spire-selected starbursts. Astrophysical Journal, 761 (2). p. 139. ISSN 0004-637X

Amblard, Alexandre, Oliver, Seb and et al, (2011) Sub-millimetre galaxies reside in dark matter halos with masses greater than 3x10^11 solar masses. Nature, 470 (7335). pp. 510-512. ISSN 0028-0836

Smith, Anthony, Oliver, Seb, Wang, Lingyu and et al, (2011) HerMES: point source catalogues from deep Herschel-SPIRE observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 419 (9). pp. 377-389. ISSN 0035-8711

Oliver, Seb, Frost, M, Farrah, D, Gonzales-Solares, E, Shupe, D L, Henriques, B, Roseboom, I, Alfonso-Luis, A, Babbedge, T S R, Frayer, D, Lencz, C, Lonsdale, C J, Masci, F, Padgett, D, Polletta, M, Rowan-Robinson, M, Siana, B, Smith, H E, Surace, J A and Vaccari, M (2010) Specific star formation and the relation to stellar mass from 0 < z < 2 as seen in the far-infrared at 70 and 160 µm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 405 (4). pp. 2279-2294. ISSN 1365-2966

Gomez, H L, Baes, M, Cortese, L, Smith, M W L, Boselli, A, Ciesla, L, Bendo, G J, Pohlen, M, di Serego Alighieri, S, Oliver, S and et al, (2010) The dust morphology of the elliptical Galaxy M 86 with SPIRE. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518. ISSN 0004-6361

Oliver, S, Wang, L, Smith, A J, Altieri, B, Amblard, A, Arumugam, V, Auld, R, Aussel, H, Babbedge, T, Blain, A, Bock, J, Boselli, A, Buat, V, Burgarella, D, Castro-Rodríguez, N, Cava, A, Chanial, P, Clements, D L, Conley, A, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, Dowell, C D, Dwek, E, Eales, S, Elbaz, D, Fox, M, Franceschini, A, Gear, W, Glenn, J, Griffin, M, Halpern, M, Hatziminaoglou, E, Ibar, E, Isaak, K, Ivison, R J, Lagache, G, Levenson, L, Lu, N, Madden, S, Maffei, B, Mainetti, G, Marchetti, L, Mitchell-Wynne, K, Mortier, A M J, Nguyen, H T, O'Halloran, B, Omont, A, Page, M J, Panuzzo, P, Papageorgiou, A, Pearson, C P, Pérez-Fournon, I, Pohlen, M, Rawlings, J I, Raymond, G, Rigopoulou, D, Rizzo, D, Roseboom, I, Rowan-Robinson, M, Sánchez Portal, M, Savage, R S, Schulz, B, Scott, D, Seymour-Smith, N, Shupe, D L, Stevens, J A, Symeonidis, M, Trichas, M, Tugwell, K E, Vaccari, M, Valiante, E, Valtchanov, I, Vieira, J D, Vigroux, L, Ward, R, Wright, G, Xu, C K and Zemcov, M (2010) HerMES: SPIRE galaxy number counts at 250, 350, and 500 μm. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518 (L21). ISSN 1432-0746

Griffin, M J, Oliver, S and et al, (2010) TheHerschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518 (3). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1432-0746

Farrah, D, Connolly, B, Connolly, N, Spoon, H W W, Oliver, S, Prosper, H B, Armus, L, Houck, J R, Liddle, A R and Desai, V (2009) An evolutionary paradigm for dusty active galaxies at low redshift. Astrophysical Journal, 700 (1). pp. 395-416. ISSN 0004-637X

Hernán-Caballero, A, Pérez-Fournon, I, Hatziminaoglou, E, Afonso-Luis, A, Rowan-Robinson, M, Rigopoulou, D, Farrah, D, Lonsdale, C J, Babbedge, T, Clements, D, Serjeant, S, Pozzi, F, Vaccari, M, Montenegro-Montes, F M, Valtchanov, I, González-Solares, E, Oliver, S, Shupe, D, Gruppioni, C, Vila-Vilaró, B, Lari, C and La Franca, F (2009) Mid-infrared spectroscopy of infrared-luminous galaxies at z similar to 0.5-3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 395 (3). pp. 1695-1722. ISSN 0035-8711

Papapostolou, David, Smith, Andrew M, Atkins, Edward D T, Oliver, Seb J, Ryadnov, Maxim G, Serpell, Louise C and Woolfson, Derek N (2007) Engineering nanoscale order into a designed protein fiber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (26). pp. 10853-10858. ISSN 0027-8424

Davoodi, P, Pozzi, F, Oliver, S, Polletta, M, Afonso-Luis, A, Farrah, D, Hatziminaoglou, E, Rodighiero, G, Berta, S, Waddington, I, Lonsdale, C, Rowan-Robinson, M, Shupe, D L, Evans, T, Fang, F, Smith, H E and Surace, J (2006) Optical and infrared diagnostics of SDSS galaxies in the SWIRE survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 371 (3). pp. 1113-1124. ISSN 0035-8711

Farrah, Duncan, Lonsdale, Carol, Borys, Colin, Fang, Fan, Waddington, Ian, Oliver, Seb, Rowan-Robinson, Michael, Babbedge, Tom, Shupe, David, Polletta, Mari, Smith, Harding and Surace, Jason (2006) The Spatial Clustering of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies over 1.5 < z < 3. Astrophysical Journal, 641 (1). L17-L20. ISSN 0004-637X

Mortier, A M J, Serjeant, S, Dunlop, J S, Scott, S E, Ade, P, Alexander, D, Almaini, O, Aretxaga, I, Baugh, C, Benson, A J, Best, P N, Blain, A, Bock, J, Borys, C, Bressan, A, Carilli, C, Chapin, E L, Chapman, S, Clements, D L, Coppin, K, Crawford, M, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Dunne, L, Eales, S A, Edge, A C, Farrah, D, Fox, M, Frenk, C, Gaztanaga, E, Gear, W K, Gonzales-Solares, E, Granato, G L, Greve, T R, Grimes, J A, Gundersen, J, Halpern, M, Hargrave, P, Hughes, D H, Ivison, R J, Jarvis, M J, Jenness, T, Jimenez, R, van, K, King, A, Lacey, C, Lawrence, A, Lepage, K, Mann, R G, Marsden, G, Mauskopf, P, Netterfield, B, Oliver, S, Olmi, L, Page, M J, Peacock, J A, Pearson, C P, Percival, W J, Pope, A, Priddey, R S, Rawlings, S, Roche, N, Robinson, M R, Scott, D, Sekiguchi, K, Seigar, M, Silva, L, Simpson, C, Smail, I, Stevens, J A, Takagi, T, Tucker, G, Vlahakis, C, Waddington, I, Wagg, J, Watson, M, Willott, C and Vaccari, M (2005) The SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey - I. Survey motivation, design and data processing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 363 (2). pp. 563-580. ISSN 0035-8711

Oliver, Seb and Pozzi, Francesca (2005) The European Large Area ISO Survey. In: Space Science Reviews. SPRINGER, pp. 411-423. ISBN 978-3-540-25665-6

Van Kampen, Eelco, Percival, Will J, Crawford, Miller, Dunlop, James S, Scott, Susie E, Bevis, Neil, Oliver, Seb, Pearce, Frazer, Kay, Scott T, Gaztañaga, Enrique, Hughes, David H and Aretxaga, Itziar (2005) The extragalactic submillimetre population: predictions for the SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 359 (2). pp. 469-480. ISSN 0035-8711

Oliver, Seb, Waddington, Ian, Gonzalez-Solares, Eduardo, Surace, Jason, Fang, Fan, Shupe, Dave, Jarrett, Tom, Lonsdale, Carol, Xu, Cong (Kevin), Farrah, Duncan, Salaman, Malcolm, Rowan-Robinson, Michael, Siana, Brian, Smith, H E (Gene) and Salaman, David (2004) Angular Clustering of Galaxies at 3.6 Microns from the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) Survey. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 154 (1). pp. 30-34. ISSN 0004-637X

La Franca, F, Gruppioni, C, Matute, I, Pozzi, F, Lari, C, Mignoli, M, Zamorani, G, Alexander, D M, Cocchia, F, Danese, L, Franceschini, A, Héraudeau, P, Kotilainen, J-K, Linden-Vørnle, M J D, Oliver, S, Rowan-Robinson, M, Serjeant, S, Spinoglio, L and Verma, A (2004) The Nature of the Mid-Infrared Population from Optical Identifications of the ELAIS-S1 Sample. Astronomical Journal, 127 (6). p. 3075. ISSN 0004-637X

Lonsdale, Carol J, Smith, Harding E, Rowan-Robinson, Michael, Surace, Jason, Shupe, David, Xu, Cong, Oliver, Sebastian, Padgett, Deborah, Fang, Fan, Conrow, Tim, Franceschini, Alberto, Gautier, Nick, Griffin, Matt, Hacking, Perry, Masci, Frank, Morrison, Glenn, O'Linger, Joanne, Owen, Frazer, Pérez‐Fournon, Ismael, Pierre, Marguerite, Puetter, Rick, Stacey, Gordon, Castro, Sandra, Polletta, Maria Del Carmen, Farrah, Duncan, Jarrett, Tom, Frayer, Dave, Siana, Brian, Babbedge, Tom, Dye, Simon, Fox, Matt, Gonzalez‐Solares, Eduardo, Salaman, Malcolm, Berta, Stefano, Condon, Jim J, Dole, Hervé and Serjeant, Steve (2003) SWIRE: The SIRTF Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic Survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 115 (810). pp. 897-927. ISSN 0004-6280

Manners, J C, Johnson, O, Almaini, O, Willott, C J, Gonzalez-Solares, E, Lawrence, A, Mann, R G, Perez-Fournon, I, Dunlop, J S, McMahon, R G, Oliver, S J, Rowan-Robinson, M and Serjeant, S (2003) The ELAIS deep X-ray survey - I. Chandra source catalogue and first results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 343 (1). pp. 293-305. ISSN 0035-8711

Matute, I, La Franca, F, Pozzi, F, Gruppioni, C, Lari, C, Zamorani, G, Alexander, D M, Danese, L, Oliver, S, Serjeant, S and Rowan-Robinson, M (2002) The evolution of type 1 active galactic nuclei in the infrared (15µm): the view from ELAIS-S1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 332 (1). L11. ISSN 0035-8711

Oliver, Seb, Mann, Robert G., Carballo, Ruth, Franceschini, Alberto, Rowan-Robinson, Michel, Kontizas, Maria, Dapergolas, Anastasios, Kontizas, Evanghelos, Verma, Aprajita, Elbaz, David, Granato, Gian Luigi, Silva, Laura, Rigopoulou, Dimitra, Gonzalo-serrano, J. Ignacio, Serjeant, Steve, Efstathiou, Andreas and van der Werf, Paul P. (2002) Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South with the Infrared Space Observatory - 1. Observations, data reduction and mid-infrared source counts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 332 (3). pp. 536-548. ISSN 0035-8711

Colina, Luis, Borne, Kirk, Bushouse, Howard, Lucas, Ray A, Rowan-Robinson, Michael, Lawrence, Andy, Clements, David, Baker, Amanda and Oliver, Seb (2001) Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Mergers of Sub-L* Galaxies? Astrophysical Journal, 563 (2). p. 546. ISSN 0004-637X