11 Facts About Christopher Conselice

Christopher J Conselice is an astrophysicist who is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Christopher Conselice obtained a faculty position at the University of Nottingham in 2005.

Christopher Conselice became Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Manchester in 2020.

Christopher Conselice specializes in the formation and evolution of galaxies and their structural parameters - the so-called CAS parameters.

Christopher Conselice has taken a leading role in many of the largest Hubble Space Telescope and ground based imaging surveys, including the Hubble Deep Field and GOODS survey.

Christopher Conselice is the Principal Investigator on the HST GOODS NICMOS Survey, which utilises 180 orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope to image over 8000 galaxies in the near infrared.

Christopher Conselice has been one of the pioneers in using the fact that the speed of light is constant to determine how galaxy evolution has occurred.

Christopher Conselice led a team in 2016 which showed that the number of galaxies in the universe was 2 trillion.

Christopher Conselice working with student Tom Westby developed a new methodology for calculating the number of possible communicating intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations there could be in our galaxy.

Christopher Conselice was the "Research Notebook" columnist for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury Magazine from 1999 to 2003.

Christopher Conselice has written for other popular astronomy magazines such as Scientific American, Discovery, and Astronomy, as well as having published over 200 articles in refereed scientific journals.