CURRICULUM VITAE

Matthew Colless - May 2008

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Professor Matthew Malcolm Colless, FAA
Date of birth: 25 November 1960
Position: Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory
Address: PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9372 4812
Fax: +61 2 9372 4880
Email: colless@aao.gov.au
WWW: http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/colless


Name:	Professor Matthew Malcolm Colless, FAA
Date of birth:	25 November 1960
Position:	Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory
Address:	PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Phone:	+61 2 9372 4812
Fax:	+61 2 9372 4880
Email:	colless@aao.gov.au
WWW:	http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/colless

ACADEMIC RECORD

B.Sc. (First Class Honours) 1982, University of Sydney
Ph.D. 1987, Institute of Astronomy and King's College, University of Cambridge

RESEARCH AND TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Research Assistant, Anglo-Australian Observatory, 1980-1982.
Laboratory Demonstrator, School of Physics, University of Sydney, 1982-1983.
Lecturer, University of Maryland European Division, 1984-1985.
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dept of Physics, University of Durham, 1986-1989.
Lindemann Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1987.
Junior Research Fellow, King's College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 1989-1992.
Research Fellow, Mount Stromlo & Siding Springs Observatories, The Australian National University, 1993-1995.
Fellow, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University, 1995-2001.
Senior Fellow, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University, 2001-2003.
Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory, 2004-present.
Adjunct Professor, School of Physics, University of Sydney, 2005-present.

PUBLICATIONS AND CITATIONS

Publications lists: All | all citations | refereed | refereed citations | conference & other | preprints [ADS]
Publication & citation counts: 195 publications with 9583 citations (106 papers in refereed journals with 9220 citations; 89 conference & other publications with 363 citations) [ADS]
Citation statistics: 1 paper has >600 citations, 4 papers have 300-400 citations, 9 papers have 200-300 citations, 17 papers have 100-200 citations and 17 papers have 50-100 citations; average citations per refereed paper is 87.0; h-index is 49 [ADS]
High impact papers: 3 papers in the 1000 most-cited astronomy papers of all time; 13 papers in the 100 most-cited papers from their year of publication [ADS]
ISI Highly Cited Researcher 2007, one of the 250 most-cited researchers in Space Sciences in the past 25 years [ISI]

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Science Foundation for Physics Awards for Excellence, Scholarship 1982, University of Sydney.
Henry Chamberlain Russell Prize in Astronomy 1982, University of Sydney.
Ormsby Hamilton Radio Prize 1984, University of Sydney
Shell Australia Postgraduate Scholarship in Science and Engineering 1983-1986, University of Cambridge.
Lindemann Trust Fellowship 1987, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona.
Junior Research Fellowship 1989, King's College, University of Cambridge.
Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal 1994, awarded by the Astronomical Society of India for "exceptional scientific contributions in the field of astronomy and astrophysics".
ISI Citation Laureate 2001, one of the 33 most highly-cited Australian scientists, with 7 high-impact papers in the period 1981-1998.
Finalist, Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, 2001 & 2002.
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 2004.
ISI Highly Cited Researcher 2007, one of the 250 most-cited researchers in Space Sciences in the past 25 years.
Walter Burfitt Prize of the Royal Society of New South Wales 2007, awarded every three years to "a worker in pure or applied science, resident in Australia or New Zealand, whose papers during the past six years are deemed of the highest scientific merit".
Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award 2007, to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey Team for "outstanding achievement by a large consortium in any branch of astronomy".

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Full member of the American Astronomical Society.
Member of the International Astronomical Union (Commission 47).
Australian Time Assignment Committee, Anglo-Australian Telescope, 1993-1996.
Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 5 Review Panel Galaxies and Clusters, 1994.
Principal Investigator and Team Leader, the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, 1995-2003.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Stromlo Workshop, Peculiar Velocities in the Universe, Heron Island, July 1995.
Scientific Organizing Committee, ESO Workshop The Early Universe with the VLT, Munich, April 1996.
Australian observer, ESO Science and Technical Committee, 1996.
Project Scientist and Project Manager for the AUSTRALIS concept study, a fibre spectrograph for ESOs Very Large Telescope, 1996.
Staff Representative, Board of Studies, Graduate Program in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, 1996-1998.
Scientific Organizing Committee, A new vision of an old cluster: untangling Coma, Marseille, June 1997.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Joint Discussion on Redshift Surveys in the 21st Century, IAU General Assembly, Kyoto, August 1997.
Scientific Organizing Committee, The Young Universe, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, October 1997.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Looking Deep in Southern Skies, ESO/Australia Workshop, December 1997.
Project Scientist, OzPoz fibre positioner, European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, 1997-2002.
Chair of the Advisory Committee on Instrumentation for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, 1998-2000.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Wide Field Surveys for Cosmology, Institut dAstrophysique de Paris Symposium 14, May 1998.
Member of the Australian Gemini Science Advisory Committee, 1998-2001.
Chair of the 6dF Science Advisory Group, 1998-2005.
Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee, Redshift Surveys and Cosmology, Second Coral Sea Cosmology Conference, Dunk Island, August 1999.
Chair of the Anglo-Australian Observatory Users Committee, 2000-2001.
Member of Editorial Board for Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2000-2001.
Chair, National Committee for Astronomy Working Group, Mid-Term Review of the Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy, 2000-2001.
Member, National Committee for Astronomy of the Australian Academy of Science, 2001-2006.
Member, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Board, 2002-2003.
Member, NOAO/NSF Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Working Group, 2002-present.
Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee, ANU Physics Summer School, The New Cosmology, Canberra, February 2003.
Chair, National Committee for Astronomy Working Group on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003-2007.
Scientific Organizing Committee and Proceedings Editor, IAU Symposium 216, Maps of the Cosmos, July 2003.
Member, Council of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2003-2006
Scientific Organizing Committee, Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Venice, October 2003.
Member, Australian Astronomy Board of Management, 2004-2007.
Scientific Organizing Committee, The Distribution of Mass and Light in the Universe, Aspen, January 2004.
Member, Australia Telescope National Facility Steering Committee, 2004-present.
Member, Australian Centre for Astrobiology Advisory Board, 2004-2007.
Harley Wood Lecturer, Astronomical Society of Australia, 2004.
Member of the Australian Gemini Steering Committee, 2004-2007.
Malcolm McIntosh Memorial Lecture, CSIRO, 2004.
Australian Partnership for Advanced Supercomputing, Astronomy Steering Committee, 2005-present
Member, Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy 2006-2015, Working Groups 2.1 and 3.2.
Invited review, UK National Astronomy Meeting, Birmingham, April 2005.
Scientific Organizing Committee, 6dF Galaxy Survey Workshop, April 2005.
John Bolton Memorial Lecture, CSIRO, Parkes, July 2005.
Invited review, Workshop on Dark Energy, Hawaii, November 2005.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Science with Extremely Large Telescopes, Capetown, November 2005.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Cosmic Frontiers, Durham, July 2006.
Member, Giant Magellan Telescope Board, 2006-present.
Chair, National Committee for Astronomy of the Australian Academy of Science, 2006-2009.
Member, International Year of Astronomy, Australian Advisory Group, 2007-2010.
Member, Australian Giant Magellan Telescope Advisory Committee, 2007-present.
Scientific Organizing Committee, Science with AO-fed instruments on large telescopes, Dunk Island, April 2008.
Member, National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy working group on Frontier Technologies, 2008.

REFEREES

Professor Richard S. Ellis
Steele Professor of Astronomy
Director, Caltech Optical Observatories
Department of Astronomy
California Institute of Technology, MS 105-24
Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.
Ph: +1-626-3952598, Fax: +1-626-5689352
Email: rse@astro.caltech.edu
Professor Warrick J. Couch
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
Mail #H39, PO Box 218, Hawthorn
Victoria 3122, Australia
Ph: +61-3-9214-4712, Fax: +61-3-9214-8797
Email: wcouch@astro.swin.edu.au
Professor Roger L. Davies
Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics
Department of Astrophysics
University of Oxford
Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, U.K.
Ph: +44-1865-273305, Fax: +44-1865-273390
Email: rld@astro.ox.ac.uk

Professor John A. Peacock
Professor of Cosmology
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill
Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, U.K.
Ph: +44-131-6688390, Fax: +44-131-6688264
Email: jap@roe.ac.uk
Professor John P. Huchra
Professor of Astronomy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St, MS2
Cambridge, MA 02138-1516, U.S.A.
Ph: +1-617-4957375, Fax: +1-617-4957467
Email: huchra@cfa.harvard.edu
Professor Carlos S. Frenk
Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics
Director, Institute for Computational Cosmology
Dept of Physics, University of Durham
South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Ph: +44-191-3343641, Fax: +44-191-3343645
Email: c.s.frenk@durham.ac.uk