Jerry A. Sellwood
Jerry Sellwood completed his PhD in Astronomy at Manchester
University, England in 1977. He has held positions at the European
Southern Observatory, Groningen University (The Netherlands), Cambridge
University (England), and the Space Telescope Science Institute in
Baltimore. He has been on the Faculty at Rutgers University since
1991.
He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and of the
American Astronomical Society. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall
Cambridge and recipient of the 1999 Graduate Teaching Award from
Rutgers Graduate School.
His main interests are structure and evolution of galaxies, their
formation and their dark matter content. He is an expert on disk
dynamics, bars and spirals in galaxies, and uses state-of-the-art
N-body simulations to learn about these systems. He has published
over 100 papers, edited three volumes of conference proceedings, and
delivered more than 40 invited lectures at international
conferences.
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