Scott M. Croom

Scott Martin Croom is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney.

Croom completed his PhD at Durham University in 1997. Following a postdoc at Imperial College London, he moved to Australia in 2000 to work at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, and joined the University of Sydney in 2006. (The development, through the use of a 'hexabundle' optical element that contains many optical fibres 'precisely aligned and fused', allows light to be collected from many locations across the face of a galaxy at once.) The light entering the optical fibres is then fed to the spectrograph, which can measure a 'huge range of physical properties' such as the motion and chemistry of the gas and stars within galaxies.