Matthew John O'Dowd

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Matthew John O'Dowd is an Australian born astrophysicist . He is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Lehman College at the City University of New York . He is also the author and presenter of PBS Space Time on the PBS YouTube channel . He is a frequent guest on Science Goes to the Movies on CUNY TV and on StarTalk radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson .

Career

O'Dowd studies black holes and quasars using the gravitational lensing effect . To do this, he uses the Hubble Space Telescope and observes distant quasars that are in the neighboring galaxies of the Milky Way . These galaxies act like additional lenses that allow the telescope to observe black holes much better than would otherwise be possible.

O'Dowd is an Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the City University of New York . He is a research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History . Since 2015 he has been the author and presenter of PBS Space Time , a YouTube channel operated by PBS Digital Studios . O'Dowd is also a team member of the Black Rock Observatory , a mobile observatory that was unveiled at the 2012 Burning Man Festival.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lehman Professor Takes Off as New Host of PBS Digital Astronomy Series - CUNY Newswire ( en ) Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Department of Physics and Astronomy - Lehman College ( en ) Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ PBS Space Time ( en ) Accessed March 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Cosmic Queries: A Taste of Space, with Matt O'Dowd - StarTalk Radio (en-US) . In: StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson . Retrieved March 24, 2018. 
  5. ^ Department of Physics & Astronomy - Lehman College ( en ) Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Q&A with Matthew O'Dowd (en) . In: lohud.com . Retrieved March 25, 2018. 
  7. ↑ Black Rock Observatory ( en-US ). Retrieved March 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME O'Dowd, Matthew John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century