Miss Ahern's Junior School, Malahide
St Andrew's College, Ballsbridge,
Dublin
BA (Natural Sciences) Trinity College, Dublin,
1961
PhD (Physics) Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1968
Research Fellow, MIT, 1968
Research Fellow, Caltech, 1970
Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1971
South African Astronomical Observatory, 1975-present
Associate, ESO, 1980-81
Adjunct Professor, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia,
2008-present
Visitor for various periods at: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA;
MIT; Institut d' Astrophysique, Paris, France; Institute of Astronomy,
Cambridge, England; Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India; National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Nobeyama and Mitaka).