Roberto Abraham

Roberto Abraham, FRSC (born 12 Apr 1965) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Education Abraham received a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and a PhD from Oxford University in 1992, working under the supervision of Ian M. McHardy and Roger Davies.

Career Abraham's career has been notable for his contributions via non-parametric statistics to galaxy morphological classification, especially at high-redshift and early work on the Hubble Deep Field. He was one of the leaders of the "Gemini Deep Deep Survey" which led to several notable results on early galaxies including the evolution of elliptical galaxies and why a lot of them appear so remarkably old.

He is currently a co-principal-investigator on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array telescope, which images ultra-low surface brightness galaxies at visible wavelengths of light.

Abraham was the President of the Canadian Astronomical Society from 2016 to 2018. He currently serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

Awards and recognition

2005 – University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award 2011 – Canadian Astronomical Society P.G. Martin 2015 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2017 – Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship