Matthew Bershady

Research Staff

SAAO SARChI, joint with UWisc

Research Chair (SARChI), South African Astronomical Observatory
Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• OBSERVATION Sub-GROUP:
  1. Honors/bursary project (BSc): [description]
     Finding extreme star-forming galaxies for SALT in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  2. Honors/bursary project (BSc): [description]
     Finding Milky-Way-like edge-on galaxies in HI deep-fields
  3. Masters (MSc,1 year): [description]
     HI masses of extreme star-forming galaxies in HI deep-fields
  4. Ph.D. (3 years): [description]
     Vertical structure evolution of spiral galaxy disks using optical and near-infrared integral field spectroscopy

• INSTRUMENT Sub-GROUP:
  5. Honors/bursary projects (BSc or BTech): [description]
     Civil engineering for astronomical instrumentation lab
  6. Honors/bursary projects (BSc or BTech): [description]
     Mechanical engineering for fibre-optic test facility
  7. Masters (1 year) (MSc or MTech): [description]
     Design and development of fibre-optic test facility
  8. Ph.D. (3 years): [description]
     Design, development and commissioning of a fibre slit-mask integral-field unit for SALT prime-focus spectrograph
• For more: https://www.saao.ac.za/~matthew/

Research Interests:
Stellar populations, galaxy dynamics and evolution, instrumentation

Education

[education list coming soon]