Draft:Brian Espey
Comment: He has made a good start to his career. However, with an h-factor of 28 where many of the papers are group publications he is far short of WP:NPROF. He would need a much more significant publication record, and major awards. Ldm1954 (talk) 00:18, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
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Brian Espey is an Irish astrophysicist and Associate Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a h-index of 28 with over 3000 citations..[1]
Education
[edit]Espey earned a B.A. (Mod) in Experimental Physics from Trinity College Dublin in 1983, followed by a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1990 regarding emission lines and high redshift quasars, under the supervision of Dr. Robert F. Carswell. [1]
Career
[edit]He has held a number of research positions throughout his career. From 1983 to 1985, he worked as a Scientific Officer in the Laser Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, UK. In 1990, he joined the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands as a Royal Society European Science Exchange Fellow.
Between 1990 and 1993, Espey was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. He later joined the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, where he was promoted to Associate Research Scientist in 1994 and remained for four years.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as an Assistant Astronomer with the European Space Agency, stationed at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time, he was also an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, he returned to Ireland and was appointed as a permanent lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.[2]
Presently, Espey is a leading figure in Ireland's efforts for light-pollution awareness, conducting the country’s first national survey of light pollution and helping shape dark-sky policies. He is a founding member and Chairman of Dark Sky Ireland [3][4].
Awards
[edit]- Recipient of the 2020 Hoag-Robinson Award from the International Dark-Sky Association for his leadership in light-pollution education and policy [5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Brain Espey Google Scholar".
- ^ "Brian Espey'Trinity Research - Trinity College Dublin".
- ^ "Committee". Dark Sky Ireland. Archived from the original on 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
- ^ Gorey, Colm (2015-03-24). "Budding Irish astrophysicists can gain enormously if Ireland joins ESO - Innovation | siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service". Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on 2025-01-18. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
- ^ "Prof. Brian Espey recognised with international award - School of Physics | Trinity College Dublin".