Željko Ivezić (born 1965 in Sarajevo) is a Croatian-American astrophysicist.
After receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Kentucky in 1995, where he worked on dust radiative transfer models (he wrote the code Dusty), he moved to Princeton University in 1997 to work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) being the principal author of the SDSS Moving Object Catalogue (SDSS-MOC).[1] After Princeton, he took a professorship at the University of Washington in 2004.
He has co-authored over 250 scientific papers.[2] Currently, he is the System Scientist in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project (LSST) and the chair of the LSST Science Council.[3] He is also a member of the science advisory groups for the EVLA, VAO and LIGO projects.
Awards and honors
editHe was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [4]
Asteroid 202930 Ivezić, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory in 1998, was named after him.[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 2010 (M.P.C. 68449).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "202930 Ivezic (1998 SG172)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ Astrophysics Data System listing for Željko Ivezić
- ^ LSST System Scientist http://www.lsst.org/lsst/system_scientist
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 26 August 2019.